supralapsarian

(so̵̅o̅′prə lap serē ən)

noun

any of a group of Calvinists who held that God's plan of salvation for some people preceded the fall of humanity from grace, which had been predestined

Origin: < supra- + L lapsus, a fall (see lapse) + -arian

adjective

of this doctrine

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