Beginning again from scratch to learn who you are is a strange idea for most of us. It is precisely what people who have suffered severe memory loss need to do. It is what people who have suffered other kinds of loss also need to do: the refugee without home, country or family is only one example. Precisely this sort of exercise, losing one identity and reconstructing another, is what Paul is explaining in this passage. Who determines who you are – your family, friends or pop culture? Could you find the answer in your Creator?