INFRALAPSARIAN


Meaning of INFRALAPSARIAN in English

adj of or pertaining to the infralapsarians, or to their doctrine.

2. infralapsarian ·noun one of that class of calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state;

— opposed to supralapsarian. the former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of god's original purpose in regard to men.

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