fall of man
Paradise lost forever
The fall of man is the Christian doctrine that humanity's first sin—Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden—corrupted human nature and introduced sin, suffering, and death into the world.
The concept explains why humans are morally flawed and need salvation: The fall of man is central to understanding original sin.
The phrase sometimes appears secularly to describe any catastrophic moral decline.
First created man
- EveGenesis matriarch
- Garden of EdenBiblical first home
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- forbidden fruitEnticing thing that's prohibited
Genesis · expulsion · disobedience · transgression · punishment · fig leaf · tree of knowledge · Eden
Cunning, limbless reptile
- appleCrisp tree fruit
- forbidden fruitEnticing thing that's prohibited
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
- enticementSomething that attracts
disobedience · desire · seduction · guile · beguilement · weakness · persuasion · deceit
Recovery or moral restoration
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
Christianity · covenant · depravity · corruption · human nature · Augustine · concupiscence · total depravity
Study of mankind's emergence
- DarwinBritish naturalist, species theorist
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- primatesOrder of higher mammals
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
hominid · bipedalism · consciousness · mortality · adaptation · emergence
Adam
First created man
- EveGenesis matriarch
- Garden of EdenBiblical first home
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
forbidden fruit · Genesis · expulsion · disobedience · transgression · punishment · fig leaf · tree of knowledge · Eden · banishment
serpent
Cunning, limbless reptile
- appleCrisp tree fruit
- forbidden fruitEnticing thing that's prohibited
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
enticement · disobedience · desire · seduction · guile · beguilement · weakness · persuasion · deceit · cunning
redemption
Recovery or moral restoration
doctrine · Christianity · covenant · depravity · corruption · human nature · Augustine · concupiscence · total depravity · imputation
human origins
Study of mankind's emergence
- DarwinBritish naturalist, species theorist
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- primatesOrder of higher mammals
anthropology · hominid · bipedalism · consciousness · mortality · adaptation · emergence
Milton
Baroque English verse master
- Paradise LostEpic of humanity's expulsion
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- epicImpressively grand in scope
Satan · archangel · Lucifer · Blake · Dante · theodicy · narrative · mythos · symbolism · archetype
- BiblicalAdam, Eve, Moses, Noah, David
- Bible StoriesAdam and Eve, David and Goliath, Noah's Ark, Jonah and the whale, nativity
- biblical themescreation, messiah, covenant, salvation, redemption
- art subjectssubject matter, landscapes, human form, religion, seascapes
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
- GenesisAdam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac
fall of manredemption
Recovery or moral restoration
salvation · atonement · reconciliation · grace · sanctification
fall of mannew creation
Recently made thing
ascension · Pentecost · apotheosis · final judgment · New Jerusalem
fall of manstate of grace
Freedom from mortal sin
glorification · sinlessness · immortality · incorruptibility · deification
fall, man, fell, fallen, falling, downfall, waterfall, befall, landfall