1. In my opinion, I believe that people are interesting emotional beings. We were placed on this earth by God and given His commandments to follow, but in the end, we end up letting our wants and desires drive us and become victims to sin. God gave us the power to choose, he gave us the ability to reason and be competent of the world around us; as weak enslaved beings to our desires we often want more and do the opposite of what we are told. God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and gave them many types of fruits to eat minus just one type of fruit from one tree. He told them not to eat from it, and they did. This made sin enter the world and causethe fall of mankind. It seems to be a trend that people do not like authority, all though we are here to please God. People want to rule themselves and everyone wants to be on top. I should correct the statement I just made; everyone wants to be on top with as little work as possible. This is why we throw away religion because it’s just “too hard” to follow the laws set before us by God. When I say that humans are emotional beings I mean that we are all driven by our emotions. When we are angry we yell and fight, when we are sad we cry,etc. Though this is true I believe we are all spiritual although many reject the idea of God and accept the love of science. We are born into sin, but we have the option to find salvation. We give into the earthly pleasures and riches around us which makes us fall short of the kingdom of heaven. The Bible says, “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matt. 19;24). The world is based on many superficialities, which is making it harder for people to see the real purpose of life, to carry out God’s will and love him. God gives us the free will to choose to be with Him or without Him. So, we all have free will to choose how we want to live, however we will all be judged in the end. God is our destiny and our truth.
I believe we were born into this world with a purpose and we live our lives trying to fulfill this purpose. We are taught through nurture of our families (they play a vital role), and helped by our genetics. When we are of age to reason and no longer depend on our parents we must all live by faith trusting that God will always prepare the way and help us live out his will for us. Don’t you realize something? The people who don’t turn to religion are the ones who are always questioning things. It is those who treat religion as the physical and not the spiritual who are always wondering why they are on earth? What is their purpose? It is always the ones who are scientifically endowed, who are always searching for the reason we are here instead of searching how to better themselves to gain salvation. Those who are connected spiritually and emotionally to God have faith and are looking through their faith to their purpose. These people know that we should live through love, through Christ, through grace to gain salvation. We should all “Do onto others as we would have them do onto us.” We should live by comprehension and trying to look at other peoples’ lives through their glasses. We must give up desires of the flesh, which are keeping us enslaved to this world, and seek forgiveness and love through the spirit.
Women and men are both human with two different roles in life. They are equal and should be treated equally because their potentials are the same. It is hard to put a real label on the sexes because each person has their own drive, which causes them to use a little or all of their potential. Fundamentally, people are looked at both holistically and individually. Due to the sin of Adam and Eve, we do die, and we do know and live in a world of sin. Though God made a holistic choice he looks at us individually also. When judgment day comes, he isn’t going to judge us as a group, he is going to judge us individually of our actions because he believes we are morally responsible for our own sin. The sin of Adam and Eve just made sin enter the world, as humans it is up to us to stray as far away from sin as possible. There is no doubt that we are all interdependent and classified into groups. For example: I am a Jamaican American and belong to the upper-middle class, one can say that that is my group. Individually, I am Michelle Webb. We must know that though we are our own individuals, we must not forget that we depend on others for food, health care, income, etc. For example, we wouldn’t be able to eat if the farmer didn’t raise the cattle, and the manufacturer didn’t kill and package it, and the supermarket didn’t sell it to us. There is no way a man can be “an island.” This is my view on human nature. As you see, I have a strong belief that everything starts and finishes with God. Only through Christ are we living.
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