In this part it will be shown how the Biblical doctrine of sin and death has been misunderstood and partly obscured by the intrustion into Christian theology of a distortion and misunderstanding of the law which may be called legalism. According to legalism, sin is regarded as primarily a falling short of a standard or the breaking of rules, the transgression of the law. This legalistic view of sin was combined in the theology of Augustine with another view of sin derived from the Greek view of reality. According to this view of reality, sin is intrinsic to human nature. The result of this combination is the doctrine of original sin. This doctrine is a misunderstanding and distortion of the Biblical doctrine of sin and death. It obscures the Biblical doctrine of the need for salvation and leads to a misunderstanding of the Biblical doctrine of salvation through the death and resurrection of Christ.