The question is, what is the extent of discontinuity from prelapsarian (or pre-fall) Adam? I argue that postlapsarian social organization—viz., as human society has manifested in post-fall history—reflects true and good principles, but in every time and place there is some degree of abuse of those principles. Thus, the formation of nations is not a product of the fall; it is natural to man as man. But the evil in nations and caused by nations is the abuse of what is intended for man’s good.
