Dean Randall EyerlyThe Fall of Adam is a term use 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 comes from the biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1-3 where a serent tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God had forbidden. Oil painting done by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1526.) Read More Read Less