Jevon Williams

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Micro Activity#3

The community I chose for the discourse is a religion-Christianity. Christians believe every human being in God’s image. Any behavior that devalues a person, therefore, is an insult to God who made and loved that person. However, there is no consensus about even the most fundamental aspects of theology, where logically, I would expect a fair amount of unity if the Holy Spirit was present as a universal guide.

Instead, Christian beliefs seem to branch and evolve along with human culture as the centuries go by, with no evidence of supernatural cohesion.
The Bible also says that Spirit’s fruit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. In contrast, the flesh’s deeds include adultery, uncleanness, lewdness, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, envy, drunkenness, and the like.
Humans, by default, are supposedly in bondage to sin from birth.

They are powerless to do anything except sin. But with the saving power of Jesus and the indwelling of the Spirit, the bondage is broken, so that believers finally can overcome any sinful pattern. Since they love God, they are motivated to avoid evil actions which offend him — and they have the power to do so. As with discord in the Church, this can be partially explained away by our sinful nature and Satan’s attacks. But if God’s saving power is fundamental and significant, shouldn’t Christians on average display significantly more fruit of the Spirit, and fewer deeds of the flesh, than any other group?

Spend time getting to know people of different backgrounds, and it becomes apparent that this is not the case.
I now believe that love, joy, and patience are part of our natural human condition just as much as hatred, jealousy, and envy. Different qualities are cultivated in other people depending on many factors like childhood
experiences, personality, mental and emotional health, personal choices, and community influence.