>>16450029It barrowed many things from the old religions. The Holy Spirit is the Agathos Daimon the New Testament even has mentions Hades and Tartarus to describe Hell. Hel with one L is the Norse goddess who is the equivalent of Hades. Asphodel Meadows is Purgatory, and Elysium is Heven.
The reason why Christianity won is because Elysium is too hard for the average person to get in unless they were a war hero or a great leader, inventor or philosopher. While there was ambiguity about Asphodel Meadows being a lesser Heven for peasants who didn't become soldiers. We got conned Essene by Jews hard. Pharisees later exploited the con instead of fighting it when enough gentiles fell for it.