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When a man acts badly through wrong thinking or the evil desire of the flesh, the carnal and corrupted conscience comes along to deceive him by saying that what he did wasn’t really so bad and arguing that God will not reject him for it. After all, God is gracious. All men have faults, but God is merciful. God gives and forgives all. They further say that they may have certain faults yet they also have certain virtues to compensate for them. They believe that they are not the worst offenders and that God can easily overlook them and save them with the rest because, after all, they are not Turks or heathens but baptized Christians who regularly attend church.