worked on a few people two thousand years ago in a definite place point to the incessant spiritual activity of the Lord in his exalted state and require faith on the part of all those who turn to him to enter the role of participants. The narratives in Genesis 1–11 and the biblical terminology of the moral and existential consequences of the fall should not be read only on the individual and personal level, for they have social repercussions which, read hermeneutically, contribute in no mean manner