Reply To: Anthropology 2024/2025 Discussion Board 1

[Chibuike Onyeogulu]

Its being an interesting exercise with regards to the new insight and revelation obtained in course of engaging in this assignment and also a challenging one with regards to sorting out materials for this assignment.
However, the concept of creationism with regards to the origin of the human soul is one concept most believers could easily agree with or buy into since we can all agree that God is the creator but the verse of the scripture (Jeremiah 17:9) which says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” will definitely make you think twice or ask questions like “Did God actually create a deceitful and wicked heart.
A friend told me while on this assignment that the heart and soul are two different things, I quickly looked up the meaning of heart as used in Jeremiah 17:9 from “Bible Strongs concordance” and it literally mean same thing as soul which is the center of activities and having its components of will, intellect and emotion
So, in conclusion God did not create a wicked or deceitful heart thus this concept is rejected and wanting to lean on the concept of traducianism which gives answers to this argument that the soul comes from the parents and the wicked heart as used here is transcend from Adam to us after he disobeyed God.