The biblical account runs against the grain of the contemporary intuition that personal identity is equivalent to the traits of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or gender. The web of relationships described in the Scriptures is far richer and more complex than any one of these could encompass. Reducing personal identity to a singular social identity cannot do justice to the complexity of communities to which individuals actually belong, nor to their own individual moral responsibility. These social contexts do provide identity clues, but we should not suppose they exhaust the fullness of our identity. Even more significant, none of these characteristics adequately encompass the fullness of the divine-human relationship at the heart of an accurate description of personal identity.