Soul And Conscience

What is crucial for our understanding the concept of God is to fix on His Absolute value. God is Truth. Did that value become any the less because He breathed into the nostrils of Adam? From our rational point of view He can only retain that Absoluteness if the ‘living soul’ has also an absolute value. Truth cannot be halved and yet retain its purity. It is like a flame. A candle whenever it is lit has the same value as the flame that went before. Truth is that light radiating from the candle.
Soul is Absolute in terms of Truth. Conscience of man every time attests to the fact. We read how King David spared the life of the one who had chased him to the wilderness. He took a few items from the bolster of King Saul while he lay in deep sleep. (1 Sam.26:23) The fact that his implacable foe was still the Lord’s anointed deterred David from killing him. He could have succumbed to the truth of nature and made his way to the throne secure. No he didn’t yield to the temptation. He was not Saul.
David could rise above the truth his nature held out. He indeed waited for a higher Truth that God held out.
He had respect unto his soul.
benny