Accounted for death; weakened grip of magic. [1] Belief Adam’s sin cursed human race. [2] Crass injustice of damning soul because of ancestors’ sin. [3] Doctrine of hereditary guilt, innate evil, and redemption. [4] Doctrine of total depravity destroyed religion’s potential. [5] Erroneous teaching. [6] Fall of man. [7] Paul’s theory partly Mithraic, partly original. [8] Required hypothesis of onetime golden age. [9] Soul looked upon as being born under forfeit. [10] Superstition that man is child of devil. [11]