That biblical portrait of God, as you will recall, reflected the religious culture of the time, where gobs and gobs of gods filled the heavens. Well before the time we get to Jesus and Paul, however, Judaism became monotheistic. Gone were the days of Yahweh doing battle with the gods of Egypt or Moab. Though Paul’s heavens were active with supernatural entities (Eph. 6:4; 1 Cor. 8:5), only one was worthy of the title “God.”
