fall of man
fall of man · fall of mans
caída del hombre
chute de l'Homme
The transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to…The transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
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1 sensesThe transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
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- (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
- the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
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