I guess they built on the achievements of pagan Roman Empire, especially Latin language, which built on the pagan Greek, who built on the Egyptians, Phoenicians,etc. The Church itself really used the foundations the Jews had laid, I suppose, to Mountain Sinai and the giving of the Law to Moses, that’s where I’d guess that’s where that trail ends. Everybody gets a piece of that history for what it’s worth. Jesus, on the other hand, did say his kingdom was not of this world and that Satan was the ruler of this age.
I leave the Catholics, the Russians, and the Mohammedans to argue about who invented everything.
What the church did for ‘worship’ was invent a new substitute calendar opposite of scripture (and the world uses it religiously today)
-a new substitute sabbath opposite of scripture..
-new substitute holy days opposite of scripture...
The substitutes don’t end there but I don’t want to be accused of uniting catholics and protestants against a common foe, when they seem so into wanting to have their mother/daughter spats....