fallen world
Sin-stained existence here
A fallen world is the Christian theological concept of Earth after Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden—a realm marked by sin, suffering, and mortality that resulted from humanity's original disobedience.
The phrase appears in religious contexts to explain the existence of evil and imperfection: We live in a fallen world, so tragedy is inevitable.
More broadly, it describes any corrupted or degraded state of existence.
- sinViolation of divine law
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- lost paradiseRuined state of perfection
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- mortalityState of eventual death
decay · original sin · tree of knowledge · exile · temptation · serpent · grace · broken · cursed · flesh · human nature · suffering · vale of tears · death · innocence lost · expulsion · cast out · forbidden fruit
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
- Gnosticismgnosis, aeons, archons, aeon, demiurge
- Religious DualismGnosticism, Zoroastrianism, good and evil, light and darkness, Bogomilism
- theodicytheodicy, problem of evil, divine justice, greater good, innocent suffering
fallen worldheaven
Sky or bliss
paradise · Eden · Garden of Eden · Kingdom of God · Kingdom of Heaven
fallen worldstate of grace
Freedom from mortal sin
innocence · sinlessness · purity · perfection · holiness
fallen, world, fall, falls, falling, fell, worldly, worldliness, unworldly