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The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century who denied the Trinity the deity of Christ the personality of the Devil the native and total depravity of man the vicarious atonement and the eternity of future punishment His theory was that Christ was a man divinely commissioned who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary that human sin was the imitation of Adams sin and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christs virtue that the Bible was to be interpreted by human reason and that its language was metaphorical and not to be taken literally