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Originally Posted by zeek
They lived in a world where spirits, demons, angels, gods and the like were part of the common understanding of how things worked. We live in a world where science, secular society, modernity have marginalized belief in those putative entities.
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You mean to say that back then they believed in superstitious answers to life's goings-on?
How could they not? They didn't have the science we have today, nor did they even have the medical answers we have today. They didn't know bacteria and such caused disease. They attributed it to spirits and demons. Epilepsy, for example, wasn't considered a medical condition. It was demon possession to them.
Of course I don't know if we can group the New Testament Pneumatology in with those superstitions.