The Significance of Christ’s Victory (3:18–22) A glance at the religion section in any secular bookstore will reveal that people today are interested in astrology, magic and the occult rather than in Christianity. Fascination with the supernatural, coupled with a natural fear of it, prevails despite the scientific materialism of our age. The early Christians also lived in a society that really believed in the existence of spiritual powers, both good and evil. Obviously the New Testament writers shared