Is personality the result of spiritual states, or is it intrinsic to the person?

[Robert_Sock]

Personality consist of emotions, attitudes and behavior that are relatively stable across time. But the true nature of personality is a matter of philosophy. Traits like homosexuality can be due to things like genetics, which are relatively stable across time, or it could be the spiritual state that a person is born under. The implications are huge, and I tend to believe that personality is determined by the spiritual world which is more easily subject to change. The field of psychology, on the other hand, is adamant that personality is intrinsic to the person.

 

[Robert_Sock]

Would it be meaningful to pray to God if our personality was totally innate?

Do all our thoughts belong to us, or is there a large percentage that come from the spiritual world?

 

[animalis]

When we denote the species of a thing, we distingish the extrinsic and the intrinsic. For its own sake we look to the intrinsic. Identity is our own. Intrinsic identity consists in the personality.

Love and responsiblity are mutually exculsive. If personality were not intrinsic, then the person would not be called to be responsible.

 

[Robert_Sock]

When we denote the species of a thing, we distingish the extrinsic and the intrinsic. For its own sake we look to the intrinsic. Identity is our own. Intrinsic identity consists in the personality.

Love and responsiblity are mutually exculsive. If personality were not intrinsic, then the person would not be called to be responsible.

The person certainly has free will that will allow for the acceptance or rejection of extrinsic states. The so called intrinsic factors are really nothing more than free will in respect to spiritual states.