195:2.9 A [[succession]] of [[Greek]]-cultural and [[Roman]]-[[political]] [[victories]] had [[consolidated]] the [[Mediterranean]] lands into one [[empire]], with one [[language]] and one [[culture]], and had made the [[Western world]] ready for [[Monotheism|one God]]. [[Judaism]] provided this [[God]], but Judaism was not [[acceptable]] as a [[religion]] to these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeco-Roman Romanized Greeks]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_of_Alexandria Philo] helped some to [[mitigate]] their objections, but [[Christianity]] [[revealed]] to them an even better [[concept]] of one [[God]], and they [[embraced]] it readily. | 195:2.9 A [[succession]] of [[Greek]]-cultural and [[Roman]]-[[political]] [[victories]] had [[consolidated]] the [[Mediterranean]] lands into one [[empire]], with one [[language]] and one [[culture]], and had made the [[Western world]] ready for [[Monotheism|one God]]. [[Judaism]] provided this [[God]], but Judaism was not [[acceptable]] as a [[religion]] to these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeco-Roman Romanized Greeks]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_of_Alexandria Philo] helped some to [[mitigate]] their objections, but [[Christianity]] [[revealed]] to them an even better [[concept]] of one [[God]], and they [[embraced]] it readily. |