A person's essential being that distinguishes them from others.
- For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. - Psalm 103:14-16
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"Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and
decay." - CS Lewis
BUT...
“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. ' - Isaiah 45:22 - as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” - Romans 3:10-18
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? - Jeremiah 17:9
- What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? - Mark 8:36
- Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. - John 8:34
- For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. - Psalm 139:13-16
- You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands. - Job 14:15