Week 6 - Cobb 6

Theological anthropology is something that deeply interests me. I am perplexed by the questions of what exactly is human identity. Cobb quotes sociologist David Lyons. I agree with what Lyons says about accessorized identity, that our identity is that of consumers and therfore pliable based upon what we buy. Our clothes, food, entertainment, cars etc., all give us our sense of identity. Perhaps this has not always been true in the way it is now. However, what a person owns and how much seems to be a theme throughout history for measuring that peson's status. Cobb also puts forward the question of whether or not humans are intrinsically evil or good. I think we can find reason in Genesis to believe that God made humans with both good and evil in them. Free will cannot exist without the presence of evil. If we believe that God could have given free will to perfect beings in a perfect realm, how would they ever choose anything but right? This is a Catch 22. How can a morally perfect being ever choose to become morally imperfect? If they did, were they ever perfect?