THE FALL OF MAN The meaning of the fall of man is that man sinned against God. Sin is not human infirmity merely, nor is it a mistake merely, nor is it ignorance merely. Sin, again, is not merely a step upward in man’s evolution towards his highest development. The fall was a downward and not an upward movement of man. It involved guilt and transgression. It gave rise to the need of pardon, of grace and redemption. Man came under condemnation as the result of his fall. The fall, then, means that