Fall
Fall noun - The act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.
Original sin and fall are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Original sin" instead a noun "Fall".
Original sin
Original sin noun - A sin said to be inherited by all descendants of Adam.
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Fall and original sin are semantically related. You can use "Fall" instead a noun phrase "Original sin".
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Islam wholly rejects the idea of an original sin, though most people will fall into temptation in life.
Source: All Crimes Are Equal -
Start of Darkness: Both Satan's fall and mankind's "original sin." Sympathy for the Devil: Milton lets you hear Satan's anguished thoughts, wrought in beautiful poetry, to move the reader to pity Satan as he steers irrevocably toward eternal evil.
Source: Literature / Paradise Lost
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