Question: "What is the dispensation of Conscience?" Answer:
Dispensationalists see that God has worked with different people
in different times in different manners. Usually, seven
dispensations are identified: Innocence, Conscience, Government,
Promise, Law, Grace, and Millennial Kingdom. Each dispensation
reveals a six-fold pattern involving the stewards of the
dispensation, their responsibility, a specific period of time, a
failure, the resulting judgment, and God’s grace. The second
dispensation is that of Conscience—Genesis 3:23 to 8:19.
Stewards: Cain and Seth and their families The Period: From
man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden until the Flood, a
period of about 1,656 years Responsibility: To do good and offer
blood sacrifices (Genesis 3:7, 22; 4:4) Failure: Wickedness
(Genesis 6:5-6, 11, 12) Judgment: The worldwide Flood (Genesis
6:7, 13; 7:11-14) Grace: Noah and his family are saved (Genesis
6:8-9; 7:1; 8:1) During the dispensation of Conscience, mankind
only became worse and worse. Guided by c