Sadly the paganistic practices and ideas were inserted by the Greeks. I ignore anything that contradicts the Old Testemant, the New Testament is not perfect, and Bible scholars are not afraid to tell you which books, passages are questionable and there are things that are flat out fraudulent like Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, Titus, Timothy etc.
Even John is a questionable Gospel compared to Mark and Luke. So you are not wrong, and the pagan ideas/mythology inserted by the Greeks even weakens the faith of people who went to seminary school and it has made others in the seminary school become Atheist. You think Creflo Dollar would ask for a 65 million jet if he really had a soul?
@Chez Lopez