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Although the media seem to take some pleasure in using this expression when the person they are reporting about is known as a Christian, they are really using “grace” in a totally non-theological way to loosely mean “respect” or “honor” and, sometimes, “trust.”Īs I mentioned, there are those who use “fallen from grace” to express the state of Christians whose sins have caused them to lose God’s grace and lose their position before God as saved sinners. When the media refer to someone as having fallen from grace, they mean he or she has fallen from a reputation or position that was highly esteemed by others. What Adam and Eve fell from, then, was a state of innocence. When they disobeyed God and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve went from a state of not knowing good and evil-a state of innocence-to a state of knowing good and evil. God offered Adam and Eve grace through the tree of life (see “ What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?“). To say that they fell from grace is an assumption theologians make without any biblical evidence. Nothing in the Bible says that Adam and Eve ever had grace. But no one can fall from what he or she doesn’t have in the first place. In this article, I’d like to explain what the Bible really means by “fallen from grace.” Belying the False NotionsĬan Adam and Eve be said to have fallen from something? Yes. Unfortunately, this confusion obscures the Gospel. “Fallen from grace” is a biblical term with a specific meaning that matches none of the ways it is commonly used. Certain denominations frequently use the idiom to describe Christians who have so sinned that they have, according to their theology, lost their salvation (at least until they respond to another altar call).

At times, the media use the term to refer to someone-often a prominent Christian-who has had some secret sin, such as adultery, publicly exposed. We sometimes hear both Christians and non-Christians use the expression, “fallen from grace.” Occasionally, they use it to refer to Adam and Eve’s Fall in the Garden of Eden. But what does the Bible mean when it says that someone has fallen from grace? Christian Image Source. People commonly use the term to mean other things, too. Theologians often say that Adam and Eve fell from grace.