No it's like a relationship with God. Secular people might have their own ideas about where their conscience comes from. It's logical for religious people to believe their conscience is God talking to them. Convenient, sure. But it's better to say that it is useful, which is why religion exists in the first place. It has a purpose.
Haha...Call it what you like, but what relationship have you had that categorically demands you live your life a certain and extremely difficult and complicated way with a bazillion pitfalls and cockups waiting to happen and then as soon as you do falter you lose a hand or eyes or you're cast out and everyone is forbidden to even talk to you or they will suffer the say fate, or sacrifice a loved one or the ultimate punishment of perpetual flam burning torture for all of eternity? Sure you plea bargained while you were alive, that as long as you didn't do the real bad stuff He has forbidden, he will forgive you for the other stuff he has demanded you also follow.
But you can't be certain can you? I mean, what you think isn't that important by your standards and your current societies values today obviously were very important at the time that the bible was written and God when gave His laws onto man. And lets not forget that a few thousands years to the old all knowing, all seeing one is but a blink of the eye to Him, right? So to Him it would be like you chose to defy Him and Gods word straight after He just told you to obey. His word is fixed. Non Negotiable. There are no optional outs. Your bargaining and pleading won't amount to much at all. So when you finally reach your mortal coil I'm sure you're hoping that you should at last get to meet your Holly Greatness and creator of everything. But instead you end up hanging out with His ugly fallen son and angel who will relish in inflicting a whole Hell of pain on you forever?
That to me is as binding a contract as there is if you believe it.
A rose is still a rose by any other name.
Haha...relationship? Hell no. That to me is one Hell of an abusive partner. Oh and where is the part that you can ask your partner God something of him, you know just like any good and healthy relationship ought to be? Sounds like all one way traffic to me. He has all the power and you just spend a lifetime asking for some sort of clarity and or negotiation and it just falls on deaf ears. He just demands obedience and loyalty from you period. He never says you can pick and choose which bits to follow and which bits to simply ignore and do your own thing. That, in His words, is a sin and a breach of your "relationship" contract.
Damnation for you heathen.
