I'm not defending Christianity at all though...As a matter of fact I prefer the Olympian model, it's funkier
Not to mention that they also believed in an "unknown god".
"First there was Chaos, an unordered mass of things. Then came - I suppose after a big bang
Gaia ( earth ), Eros ( life ) and Tartaros (the underworld ). You see even those early civilizations believed in the afterlife."