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Fall of Man
(redirected from Fall from Paradise)

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Noun1.Fall of Man - (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 deathFall of Man - (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
Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
turning point, landmark, watershed - an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend; "the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations"


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Then we read from the Bible, each day moving forward through salvation history from creation to the birth in Bethlehem, and hang a symbol from the reading on our so-called Jesse Tree: first, a blue-and-green Earth for creation, then an Adam and Eve, then an apple for the fall from paradise, and eventually, on Christmas morning, the babe himself.
 
 
 
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