The Inscrutable Question: The Conscience & the Problem-Solving Devices: Grace & Doctrinal Orientation
11.	Military training provides ample opportunity for a young man to confront unfair and unjust treatment on a daily basis.  Young men, not young women.  There is no place for women in the profession of combat arms.  A woman is a detriment to any unit in which she functions and poses a threat to the security of the nation she endeavors to serve.
Numbers 1:2 -	Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel … every male, head by head
v 3 -	from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel.  You [ Moses ] and Aaron shall muster them by their armies.
Nahum 3:13 -	[ Why Ninevah was destroyed by the Babalonians in c. 612 b.c. ] Behold, your people are women in your midst!  The gates of your land are open wide to your enemies.
Jeremiah 51:30 - [ The Lord’s analysis of Babylon’s army when under siege from the Meads & Persians in 539 b.c. ] The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, they stay in the strongholds; their strength is exhausted, they are becoming like women. 
12.	Point 11 gives women who are in or are considering becoming a part of combat arms the opportunity to orient and adjust to biblical and pastoral authority with both poise and grace.  No extra charge!
13.	Training in combat arms under the most intense of unfair and unjust treatment is absolutely necessary if young men are going to be prepared to properly function under the abnormal conditions of warfare.
14.	Any intrusion into that preparation that in any way causes that training to be diminished, altered, or scaled down is a treat to their lives and the national security and should never be permitted by any government truly interested in the safety of its citizens.
15.	No matter what system in which you find yourself, it is critical to have a conscience based on Bible doctrine so that you can handle unjust treatment in the same gracious manner that you handle fair treatment.
16.	A principle emerges: Only the Royal Law and the Supreme Court of Heaven are designed to resolve insults, offenses, or disputes.  No honor and no spiritual power resides in retaliation.  The only real power resides in virtue love and submission to the system.
17.	The various attributes of virtue love are developed through spiritual growth, or the left column.  This is the next problem-solving device and it contributes heavily to the norms and standards of the conscience.
 	5.	Doctrinal Orientation
1.	In Isaiah we learn what God thinks about human viewpoint:
Isaiah 55:8 -	“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
v 9 -	“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
v 10 -	“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
v 11 -	so shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” 
2.	In this passage the Lord instructs us that our norms and standards and our scale of values are not even close to being the same as His.  His standards find their source in absolute truth and they cut wheel-tracks of righteousness that are different from ours. 
3.	But just as the atmosphere of the first heaven provides water for the earth resulting in physical nourishment for the eater, so also does the third heaven provide the water of the Word for the spiritual nourishment of the one who metabolizes its message.
4.	The latter accomplishes the desire of God when the water of the Word falls on good soil and the seeds of truth germinate within the conscience of the believer.