Original Sin
According to the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible, God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, and gave them a beautiful garden in which to live forever. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of life, God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. Along with many other Protestant sects and the Roman Catholic Church, English Calvinists (sometimes referred to by their critics as “Puritans,”) believed that all people bore the sins of Adam and Eve. Unlike Roman Catholics and the established Church of England, however, Puritans believed that only a small, predestined number of people would receive God’s salvation through Jesus Christ.