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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Essay
Camille Guzzetta
Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University
PSYC 101: General Psycology
Suzanne Peniche
March 31, 2025
The information presented to me on our nervous system and brain that stands out as
evidence to me that we have been uniquely created to be able to have a relationship with God
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was very interesting to investigate. One thing that I really connected with was learning about the
practice of anger and it forming into a habit. This anger, and the award of the behavior, comes
from our limbic system, specifically in our amygdala and hippocampus. Our textbook quotes 2
Peter 1:5-11, “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and
virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and
steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with
love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so
nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you
practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you
an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” This scripture tells me
that God has created us to have these behaviors, as presented in the amygdala and hippocampus,
however, He also wants us to practice better behaviors than what the easier path may be for us. If
we practice better habits, (i.e. not getting angry and easily) our spiritual being will grow more
fruitful and not remain stagnant.
After reading Chapter 2, I have a better understanding of the connection between our
nervous system, brain and being “fearfully and wonderfully made.” After learning about the
many complexities of the human brain, it might make one think “If we are all built the same,
then why are we so different?” Yes, we are, but God still gave us the free will to shape the
billions of people on Earth and make us so unique. The nervous system gave humans the ability
to freely explore, think and learn based on our own environments and choices. As Romans 8:1-8
points out, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the
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law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God
has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous
requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but
according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of
the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For
to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the
mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it
cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” it compares two different ways of life, a
life of human wants and may desire, and a life of living the one way intended us to. God has
given us the opportunity to choose, but He also gives us the opportunity to live in a way that
satisfies him.
References
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George S. Kelley B. Piferi R. (2023) Introduction to Psychology: A Christian Worldview.
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
