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==Overview<!--'Supralapsarianism' and 'Infralapsarianism' redirect here-->==

'''Supralapsarianism'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (also called ''antelapsarianism'', ''pre-lapsarianism'' or ''prelapsarianism'') is the view that God's decrees of election and reprobation logically ''preceded'' the decree of the [[fall of man]]. '''Infralapsarianism'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (also called ''postlapsarianism'' and ''sublapsarianism'') asserts that God's decrees of election and reprobation logically ''succeeded'' the decree of the Fall infralapsarianism arises from non-Catholic scholasticism with Francis Turretin in opposition to the supralapsarianism of the reformers.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|Livingston|2005|p=1563}}</ref> The words can also be used in connection with other topics, e.g. supra- and infralapsarian [[Christology]].<ref>{{harvnb|van Driel|2008}}</ref>

The difference between the two views are minute; supralapsarianism, by virtue of its belief that God creates the elect and reprobate, is a suggestion or provides an inference that at some level, God decreed sin to enter into the world without being the author of it. Infralapsarianism teaches that all men are sinful by nature (due to the Fall), are thereby condemned through our own sin ([[free will]]), and that God had [[Foreknowledge of God|foreknowledge]] of whom He would rescue from condemnation. The infralapsarianist view follows Ephesians 1:4–6, "... even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through [[Jesus Christ]], according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved" (ESV). That is, some are chosen to be elect (foreknowledge) but not created elect.