Despite any genetic predisposition we may have and any external influences that may affect us, we can “strip off the old personality with its practices, and clothe [ourselves] with the new personality, which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One who created it. ” — Colossians 3: 9, 10.
समान रूप से, नूह के समय में जी रहे लोगों के आसपास अनेक बुरे प्रभाव थे; फिर भी, उन्हें एक चुनाव करना था, एक व्यक्‍तिगत चुनाव, यदि उन्हें जल्द ही आनेवाले जल - प्रलय से बचना था ।