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 Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the
   imitation and adoption of Christ's virtue; that the Bible was to be
   interpreted by human reason; and that its language was metaphorical,
   and not to be taken literally.