Fall of man

Fall of man

![Adam), Eve, and a female serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. The depiction of the serpent as a mirror of Eve was common in earlier Christian iconography, which portrayed women as the source of the original sin and responsible for the fall of man.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/TemptationAdamEva.jpg/330px-TemptationAdamEva.jpg)

Fall of man

The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1–3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating the fruit of the tree of life) and becoming immortal.

Fall of man

Reformed Protestants believe that Jesus gave his life as a sacrifice) for the elect, that they may be redeemed from their sin. Lapsarianism, understanding the logical order of God's decrees in relation to the Fall, is divided into two categories: supralapsarian (prelapsarian, pre-lapsarian or antelapsarian, before the Fall) and infralapsarian (sublapsarian or postlapsarian, after the Fall).

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