Evolutionary Religion—Sin and Atonement (Part 1)

Primitive man regarded himself as being in debt to the spirits, as standing in need of redemption.  As time passed, this concept developed into the doctrine of sin and salvation.  The soul was looked upon as coming into the world under forfeit—original sin.  And the whole subsequent sacrificial system grew up around myriad ideas of sins of commission, later supplemented with sundry sins of omission.

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