This work traces the history of the interpretation of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3, through the biblical period and the time of the church fathers, to Augustine. It explains the emergence of the doctrine of original sin with the theology of Augustine in the late fourth century on the basis of a mistranslation of the Greek text of Romans 5:12. The author suggests that it is time to move past Augustine's theology of sin, and embrace a different theology that is more biblical and makes more sense in the postmodern West and the developing world.