Robert Mccrae's Five-Factor Model

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We often times wonder why we behave a certain way, whether our actions are good or bad. Questions may arise if our actions are stemmed from our personality traits. Several theorists made valid points why people project a specific personality. In chapter 2, Theories of Personality, it was said personality is considered a trait in which is “durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations” (Weiten, Hammer, Dunn 2014). Robert McCrae and Paul Costa developed the five-factor model that identified what stems from the five higher order traits (Big Five). The Big Five included extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Thus, the Big Five may seem to be a great way to explain …show more content…
Perhaps people may not understand that they are spiritually being attacked and rely on the notion of a good conscience and bad conscience. I believe that when Jesus died for us to wash away our sins, and rose on the third day for all us to be saved, he left the Holy Spirit with us. The Holy Spirit is our conscious in the natural sense. In the book of Genesis, the origin of sin started with curiousness when Adam and Eve made a bad decision, preferably Adam (Adam was first form, then Eve). Before Adam ate the fruit, nothing died; there was neither sin nor death on the lovely earth that God created. In addition, true believers (note I mention true believers, Christians) accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and understood salvation; they were then saved and the Holy Spiritual entered into their life-shaping their behavior that projected their …show more content…
I remember people asking me why I was different when responding to disturbing news at work and said are you a Christian or something?, I stated absolutely, though I’m not perfect, I have the Holy Spirit that filters my actions. The Bible discusses several instances that exploit unusual behavior that then was past down from generations to generations that continue today. Though the personality theorist may explain the actions of why we behave, I believe them, but the start of it is due to sinful nature. We all have a predisposed disposition that is within us but it’s our free will to determine if we want to follow the disposition is the struggle we encounter. In the book of Ezekiel 28:15, God told Lucifer, the one that was anointed the guardian cherub in the Garden of Eden, signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, “you were blameless in our ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was in you”. Now we have Satan the god of air who encourages the unusual

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