So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op\u201d\u00b2agus, said: \u201cMen of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, \u201d\u02dcTo an unknown god.\u2019 What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, for <\/p>\n
\u201d\u02dcIn him we live and move and have our being\u2019;<\/p>\n
as even some of your poets have said,<\/p>\n
\u201d\u02dcFor we are indeed his offspring.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Being then God\u2019s offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, \u201cWe will hear you again about this.\u201d\u009d So Paul went out from among them. But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionys\u201d\u00b2ius the Are-op\u201d\u00b2agite and a woman named Dam\u201d\u00b2aris and others with them.<\/p>\n
–Acts 17:16-34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op\u201d\u00b2agus, said: \u201cMen of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar…<\/span><\/p>\n