Spiritual influence
Have you ever wondered what the world was like before Christianity? For us Christians, we have the Old Testament, and we can read how God interacted with Israel and the Hebrew people. We see a little about what life was like in Babylon and Egypt as we read of the Jews being slaves. The Old Testament also mentions other “gods,” including Baal, Ashtoreth, and Molech. But have you ever considered that, as we read of Israel worshipping the one true God, the rest of the planet was worshipping pagan gods?
I remember learning about the Roman and Greek gods in school as part of history. Still, as we learned about these mythical gods, it never occurred to us that millions of people were building altars to them, keeping statues in their homes to bow down and worship them, and praying to them. It wasn’t only the Greeks and the Romans; other areas had their own religions and, therefore, their own gods. The world was overwhelmingly pagan.
