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Introduction: Having reviewed the Biblical view of people in Part 1, we are ready for the next step in which we will examine definitions for “nature” and “person” and look at various examples.  \n2. People and Their Behavior: Much can be learned about people from their words, their reactions to situations and approach to tasks. C.S. Lewis said that what one sees depends both on where you stand and what kind of person you are. That is, what you perceive and how you interpret it depends on your presuppositions and character.  \n¨ Christians stand on God’s Word & its view of people.  \n¨ About people, Jesus said,“By their fruit you will know them.” Thinking about how you learn about people, Yogi Berra said,“You can observe a lot by just watching.”  \n¨ These notions are used in the methodologies we will consider.  \n3. Useful Methods: “Informal Type Watching” is common practice. We all do it. We say things like “I knew that’s what you would say.” “That boy acts just like his father.” “You always think by talking.” “You take forever to decide and want everything to be perfect.”  \n¨ Formal methods for understanding type, like the MBTI, have proven popular and useful. More than 2 million MBTIs are evaluated each year.  \n¨ Both informal and formal methods are simply tools. Formal methods like the MBTI are not designed to judge behavior, but rather to understand a person’s preferred way of thinking, making decisions, communicating, and doing tasks.  \n¨ Tools do nothing in and of themselves. People use tools to accomplish tasks. Tools can be used for good or for evil, but tools, in themselves, are morally neutral.  \n4. Personality: A simple view of personality is that it is the enduring set of personal characteristics and behavior that define how a person approaches life.  \n¨ Personal attributes can be divided into character (moral) and temperament (neutral) .  \n¨ Character determines what you choose to do. Temperament determines how you do it. While temperament is inborn, character is instilled by training and imitation.  \n¨ Parents can only minimally impact temperament but greatly impact character.  \n¨ Regeneration & sanctification produce spiritual & moral changes that change character, but not temperament.  \n¨ Temperament & character are not truly independent, but their interactions are small enough to make assuming independence useful.  \n5. Useful Tools for Understanding People: Millions of users have proven inventories like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Keirsey Temperament Sorter are useful tools for understanding how people choose to think, decide, and choose methods to use for tasks.  \n¨ Tools are morally neutral but the people who use them are not. People can use the same tool for good or evil.  \n¨ That is true for all tools including a person’s mental, physical, and spiritual processes, which are tools used in life’s activities. Like other tools, many processes of life are morally neutral and a part of Type or Temperament.  \n¨ Whether processes are used for good or bad is determined by character. Character traits are not inventoried by the MBTI or similar tools. We will examine character separately.  \n6. Spiritual and Material/Spiritual Creatures: God is the creator of persons. He created persons in His image and after His likeness.  \n¨ Some creatures, like angels, are spiritual, nonmaterial, beings. Humans are persons formed as a union of a material body with a spiritual soul.  \n¨ God, the sovereign Creator, is an eternal spirit, of one essence (or nature), but 3 persons.  \n¨ To understand persons, clear definitions are necessary.  \n7. Definition of a Nature: All things have qualities, some essential, some not. The combination of all essential qualities of a thing or being defines its nature.  \n¨ Example: Consider a 2-inch diameter iron pipe, 3 feet long, painted white.  \n¨ Essential qualities are iron, length, and hollowness. 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