Are we 100% the way God made us or do we develop our own behaviors separately?

[Skyros]

[patois]

In the Abrahamic religions you see free will presented in Genesis. God tells Adam that they can eat from all the trees in the garden, but warns that if Adam eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that they will certainly die. The choice is there for Adam to continue to be free to do only good and enjoy eternal life, or to know good and evil which leads to sin. The price of sin is death. Nature is rebellious and insubordinate by default, so as a result Adam eats from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and from that point forward mankind knows both good and evil and is included to prefer making bad decisions in rebellion against God's law in his own selfish interests. Man is no longer free from the slavery of sin and the cost of death. Thus one man's trespass on God's law, allowed death to reign through that one man throughout the ages.

The human will is free when it is not in bondage to prefer and choose irrationally. It is free when it is liberated from preferring what is infinitely less preferable than God, and from choosing what will lead to destruction. If you are rebellious and disobedient, you know the end game... You are a slave to death. As it's said you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Thus the Messiah (i. e. Jesus) is sent down from divinity into the flesh to live a righteousness and obedient life and die a human death and be resurrected. As Jesus put it, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If one man's sin could condemn all of mankind to death, so to could one man's act of righteousness and obedience grant all of mankind eternal life. God's laws are imprinted on our minds and engraved in our hearts through The Holy Spirit. You could say, when you sin your conscience is racked in pain. You know better, but you are free to make those mistakes... But if you understand the truth, and you follow the path, then you are set free from all that pain, guilt, and turmoil.

In contrast, if you are Muslim you openly submit to slavery. You believe everything is written, and you are destine to go to hell. This is because Muslims don't believe in God. They worship Satan, and therefore can never discover truth and be freed from death.

[RebelinSteel]

We evolved, we developed and learned ourselves, from cavemen to Hunter gatherers, to the first towns and cities, that was all mankind’s doing. All religion has been, is at times a millstone around the development of mankind, some exceptions with switched on monks, however the rest has been to prevent change. A good example of that is Galileo Galilei, investigated by the Inquisition and declared a heretic for suggesting that the earth moved around the sun. If religion had not been challenged during the renaissance, Industrial Revolution and beyond, we would still be living without modern technology.

[DishLady]

Arguably, depending on which philosophical design theory you believe in, God made you, your life path and everything along the path. You have free will, though, to pick and choose the things along your path (sort of like in a video game/VR scenario).

[dustybiker2]

I'm not of the opinion of giving credit or blame to an outside entity who has yet to declare their presence.

[Skyros]

I highly recommend Exodus 33:17-23. I know I can’t make you believe, that’s not in my power or my job. God could make everyone believe in and love Him in less than a decisecond if He wanted to. The reason He doesn’t do that is He wants us to freely choose.

[sawno]

We develop our own behaviors seperately. I believe that what you love is who you are supposed to be. But people deviate from that. For example you may really love it when others are kind but struggle with anger issues due to something that happened in your life. Then thats something to overcome and not how you were made so to speak.

[Anonymous]

Everything good in you comes from God. Man is sinful by nature and falls short of the glory of God. God made us and gives us free will and hopes we choose his love rather than reject it. So the answer to your question is it is up to each one of us to make this choice.

[Yannae]

We develop it separately. I'm not fully on board with religion and the only way I can GET on board with religion is with the idea that he let's us separately choose whatever we want to do as a test.

[BarryLiverstone]

100% who God makes us., and with free will we can choose to use those gifts for a better life or sin and have a worse life.

[strateguy632]

our nature tempts us but we choose which action.

[slatyb]

We're a result of genetics and environment. Believe what you want to believe about God.

[Anonymous]

In terms of annate and innate, we're a mixture of both if that answers your question

[Dargil]

There are predispositions in our DNA. We can exercise or suppress them.

[OddBeMe]

Or is God 100% created by human behavior based on our natural fears of death?

[Skyros]

God’s talking to Moses here. The choice is yours to believe or not.

And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
- Exodus 33:22-23

[Anonymous]

A study on a few pairs of twins showed that up to 70% of a person's personality is inherited. Whether there's a God or not, it's probably the way it is. I think it has nothing to do with God.

[OtterMan68]

Nature plus nurture.

God gives us free will

[jahaims]

God is imaginary