Does everyone have a conscience?

Romans 2:14. The short answer is yes, everyone has a conscience. This includes Christians, Jews, and the unsaved - everyone. The question is what standard is followed by a person's conscience. For a Christian his or her conscience should continually be raised to an higher conscience as he takes more and more of God's Word into his heart. Jews have a conscience as evident with Jesus confrontation with the Jews and the fate of the woman caught in adultery. Jesus told them to cast a stone at the woman if they were without sin. All the Jews left because they were convicted by their conscience (John 8:8-9, "And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst."). Even the unsaved have a conscience that includes God's standards (Romans 2:14, "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:"). This makes sense in that we are all God's creatures. God gave us a conscience that includes the standards of how God desires for us to live.

BIBLE SCRIPTURE: Romans 2:14, "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:"