Dispensation Of Conscience

Ante-diluvian Age - Genesis 1:3-8:14

From the Fall of Adam to the Flood - Genesis 3:22-8:14

1. Name - Conscience - Gen. 2:15-17, 25; 3:1-6, 10.

2. Length Of Time - 1,656 years - Gen. 5:1-29, 7:6, 11.

3. Favorable Beginning - Promise of Redemption; Conscience; Place of worship; Knowledge of Reward and Punishment - Gen. 3:15, 21, 4:3-4, 7.

4. Test - To do well according to conscience - Gen. 4:7.

5. Purpose Of God - To man’s obedience to the inward voice of the conscience - Rom. 2:12-16.

6. Means Of God - Man’s conscience - Gen. 2:17.

7. Failure - Adam, Cain, his descendants, Sons of God, Seth’s descendants and all men - Gen. 6:3, 4:1-16, 17-24, 6:1-7, 11-13, 4:25-26, 6:5-13.

8. Judgement - The Flood - Gen. 6:13, 2:17; Rom. 6:23.

9. Provision For Redemption - The Ark - Gen. 6:18, 7:1-3, 8:20-22.