How Does a Person Determine Their Identity?

How does a person determine his/her identity? It is popular to identify ourselves by the type of work we do or by our family relations. And in recent history, there have been new and creative ways of expressing a sense of identity that never would have occurred to our parents. Is society’s understanding of identity evolving?

King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 24:21-22, “My son, fear the Lord and the king; do not associate with those given to change; for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin those two can bring.” What is his point? Solomon is warning against becoming so wise in...