Acts 17:28-31
28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
Even the philosophers and poets realized God who is unknown is all around us. They may even say we are God's children. But they worship gods as statues ignorantly, not knowing their accountability to the one God. So Paul told these in Athens, but he pointed out further that this one would judge all in the world by His standards of righteousness, and it would be through Jesus Christ who died and rose to life again. This is the gospel, that this is the condition of sinful man in need of God's righteousness instead of our own vain imitation of it.
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