A-Z: General definitions
- F R Leavis
- Fable
- Fabliau
- Faith
- Faith without Works
- Faithful
- Fall
- Fall of Humankind
- Fall of the angels
- Fallacy
- Fallen angel
- Fallen humanity
- Falling action
- Familiar
- Farce
- Farcical
- Fascism
- Fascist
- Fasting
- Fat of the land
- Fatalism
- Fate
- Father
- Father of the Church
- Father, forgive them '
- Father-confessor
- Faun
- Faunus
- Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom
- Feet
- Feet of Clay
- Felicity
- Felix Culpa
- Fellowship
- Feminine ending
- Feminine Rhyme
- Feminism
- Femme Fatale
- Festival
- Feudal
- Fiction
- Fictions
- Field Marshal
- Field of Blood
- Fielding
- Fiend
- Fiery furnace
- Fig Leaves
- Fig-tree
- Figurative
A-Z: General definitions: Fall
Definition
The disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Bible is known as the Fall of Humankind. Christians believe that humans from then on have had a predispostion to disobey God.
Related Topics
Big ideas: Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, 'Second Adam'; Sin
According to Genesis (the first book of the Old Testament), Adam is the first human being, made in the image / likeness of God, placed in the Garden of Eden and given dominion over the earth.
According to the book of Genesis in the Bible the first woman, said to have been created by God out of Adam's rib, to be his companion.
The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament scriptures inherited from Judaism, together with the New Testament, drawn from writings produced from c.40-125CE, which describe the life of Jesus and the establishment of the Christian church.
Adam and Eve's act of disobedience in the Garden of Eden described in the Old Testament Book of Genesis which led to estrangement from God for them and their descendants.
Name originally given to disciples of Jesus by outsiders and gradually adopted by the Early Church.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
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