All rights reserved. This page looks at four major ways of ordering the soteriological elements of God's eternal decree with a particular focus on the difference between supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism.
Explanatory notes follow.
Elect those who believe The distinction between infralapsarianism and supralapsarianism has to do with the logical order of God's eternal decrees, not the timing of election. Neither side suggests that the elect were chosen after Adam sinned. In other words, supralapsarianism suggests that God's decree of election logically preceded His decree to permit Adam's fall so that their damnation is first of all an act of divine sovereignty, and only secondarily an act of divine justice. Some use it to mean nothing more than the view that the eternal destiny of both elect and reprobate is settled by the eternal decree of God. It is actually a form of hyper-Calvinism and has nothing to do with true, historic Calvinism.