Brewer's: Infralapsarians

Those who believe that election and predestination are subsequent to the Fall. The “Supralapsarian” believes that election and predestination were in the eternal counsels of God even before the creation of Adam. (Infra, after; lapsus, the fall; supra, before; lapsus, the fall.)

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