Every human, and only humans, have a conscience.  Animals don’t have consciences because they don’t have the capacity for moral judgment.  Only humans have this capacity because only humans are made in the image of God.  Our consciences feel like an independent, third party watching over our lives.  This is because all humans know intuitively that God exists (Rom. 1:19-20) and all humans have an imperfect-but-accurate version of God’s law written on their hearts (2:14-16).  Verse 16 makes the connection between our intuitive knowledge of God and our intuitive [...]