300px|Adam, Eve, and a female serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame de Paris  The fall of man, the fall of Adam,  or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1-3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life and becoming immortal. Interpretations Immortality Christian exegetes of ("for in the day that you eat of it you shall die") have applied the day-year principle to explain how Adam died within a day. , and Jubilees 4:29–31 explained that, to God, one day is equivalent to a thousand years and thus Adam died within that same "day". Online translation of Jubilees The Greek Septuagint, on the other hand, has "day" translated into the Greek word for a twenty-four-hour period (ἡμέρα, hēméra). Original sin 400px|The fall depicted in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo  The theme is also frequently depicted in historical European art. Lucas van Leyden, a Dutch engraver and painter during the Renaissance period, created several different woodcuts featuring Adam and Eve (two were part of his Power of Women series). See also Book of the Heavenly Cow Deal with the Devil Ningishzida Paradise Lost by John Milton Theodicy and the Bible#The Fall and freedom of the will%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% References Bibliography%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Further reading Beynen, G. Koolemans, Animal Language in the Garden of Eden: Folktale Elements in Genesis in Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World, Roy G. Willis, ed., (London: Routledge, 1994), 39–50. Thompson, William Irwin, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, 1981, 2001 External links%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Fall of Adam and Eve as explained in Mormonism The Fall, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Martin Palmer, Griselda Pollock John Carey (In Our Time'', Apr. 8, 2004)%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Category:Adam and Eve Category:Bereshit (parashah) Category:Biblical phrases Category:Book of Genesis Category:Christian mythology Category:Christian terminology Category:Christian theology of the Bible Category:Garden of Eden Category:Gnosticism Category:Islamic mythology Category:Jewish mythology Category:Judeo-Christian topics Category:Mormon cosmology Category:Systematic theolog
300px|Adam, Eve, and a female serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame de Paris . The Fall of Man, the Fall of Adam, the Fall into Sin, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1-3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life and becoming immortal. Interpretations Immortality Christian exegetes of ("for in the day that you eat of it you shall die") have applied the day-year principle to explain how Adam died within a day. , and Jubilees 4:29–31 explained that, to God, one day is equivalent to a thousand years and thus Adam died within that same "day". Online translation of Jubilees The Greek Septuagint, on the other hand, has "day" translated into the Greek word for a twenty-four-hour period (ἡμέρα, hēméra). Original sin 400px|The fall depicted in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo . The theme is also frequently depicted in historical European art. Lucas van Leyden, a Dutch engraver and painter during the Renaissance period, created several different woodcuts featuring Adam and Eve (two were part of his Power of Women series). %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 
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Category:Adam and Eve Category:Bereshit (parashah) Category:Biblical phrases Category:Book of Genesis Category:Christian mythology Category:Christian terminology Category:Christian theology of the Bible Category:Garden of Eden Category:Gnosticism Category:Islamic mythology Category:Jewish mythology Category:Judeo-Christian topics Category:Mormon cosmology Category:Systematic theolog