Sory this mustve gotten buried for me....

I was speaking in terms of the original books being written tos et the jewish people apart from their occupiers, ie babylonians and assyrians. Every major civilization at that time had a polytheistic tradiction, that being more then one god. The jewish people wanted to be seperate. Circumscision to regonize the follwers of the faith, one god, them being chosen to get to the "promised land", it all fits with a civ trying to break apart form the typical society.

The books werent written by anyone else, besides jewish people. The greeks copied those texts, they werent written by them.

FYI the satan isnt the devil. Satan was gods helper to test the peoples faith in god. A story which is mirrored when jesus was tested by satan, just mis interpreted as the devil. Satan was doing work, FOR god well after this battle between heaven and hell happened. IF your refering to revalations, the odds are it was refering to ROMANS, not the world, because at the time the stories of the NT were written, The middle east was occupied by rome. Once again, a jewish theme.

All of the people int he bible are jewish. The word messiah, or as we now say it Messiah, is jewish, circumscision is jewish, so is honoring the sabbath of sunday. They are jewish rules. It was never intended with a world veiw in mind. All religions are, are old interpretations on how they veiwed, and observed life to work. Each culture is different, so each culture had different interpretations, but its still trying to interepet the same earth, the same sky, the same starts, water,people and the like.

Even someone who was an early christian, liek paul the martyr, said to a roman court " we think of jesus, as you think of the sons of jupiter (loose)", it isnt even an "original" faith.