What are you?
Until you can answer this question promptly and correctly at any time that it is asked, you do not know yourself well enough to trust yourself, to be happy, to be assured of continued safety and well-being.
What are you spiritually?
If you accept some theological teachings on the subject, you will answer that you are a sinner, a lost soul. In so answering you speak in the consciousness of the personal, the changing. You cannot say that the impersonal, the changeless, sins or becomes lost.
This guide to knowing yourself speaks to identity, consciouness, objectives, and more.