>>7897634Pagans never really searched for an answer for things like why we exist or what happens after death, they lived in the presence without worrying about the future and past, well there exist stories of gods which engage about complicated topics like afterlife, but they were almost always in a timeless state which reflects their way of living again. Things could have happended in the past or would still happen.
Still mostly only the sages of a community kept the the traditions and shared it with every single member, so there were many of the common folk who only grasped a bit of everything and questioned oneself.
Those were easily persuade to join Christianity, they found answers, because they were told to them to be fact, everyone who behaved after the new rules will find true happiness. The stories of Jesus and his powers astonished them, they supposedly happened for real in our world in the past, he was acclaimed as god of the people, the only god of them all who showed his physical appearance to man.
The others went over the centuries into oblivion and Jesus was known as the only true God.
Fake promises and exploiting of once worries were and are still the model of Christianity.
