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In theology there is the teaching of election. Election has to do with God choosing those who are going to be saved. Lapsarianism comes from the Latin word "lapsus" meaning "The Fall" In theology "The Fall" refers to the event when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and sinned by eating of the tree that was forbidden to them.
The debate is asking the question, "What went on in God's mind before he made the world? This discussion is centered not so much as to what happened in time but rather the logical order. So the question is what is the logical order in God's mind? There are two basic sides to this debate: supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism.
The superlapsrianism side: God decided before The Fall first that he would save some people and second he would allow sin into the world so that he could save them from it
infralapsarianism: God decided that he would allow sin into the world and secondly decided that he would save people.
The arguments are very complex and this is no place to try to explain these issues. Good arguments have been used for both sides and most likely elements of truth in both sides. This is also a very speculative discussion because there is very littledirect biblical information on this. The better part of wisdom says this is not a productive argument to get involved in.
You can take either side and still be a Christian because this teaching is not one of those which make a person a Christian or a non-Christian.
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