Hamilton, in responding Enns’ claim that Pauline Adamic understanding is foreign to the Old Testament, points out that Enns does not take account of the narrative nature of Genesis account in Torah. He argues that the narrative in Genesis shows the consequence of Adam’s sin in a narrative style, and the story of Cain and Abel and the flood should be understood as “the outworking of Adam’s sin” to show the readers that Adam’s sin brought the irreversible consequence of sin into the world. Enns’ hermeneutical weakness is that if the story of Cain and Abel is read independently of the story of Adam’s sin, then the readers are left with the question why Cain is evil and how he came to possess the murderous thought against his brother. Only when
