Identity is extremely important. Who we are is central to our mission in life. The problem is that the approach to identity put forth in the pop-psychology of the last decade is wrong. Identity in its essence does not come from within the person. Man’s identity was given to him by His Creator. Adam was formed by God and then told what he was to do with his life by God. Adam wasn’t left in the garden of Eden and told to ‘look deep within and find himself ’. God communicated with Adam. He told Adam