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- While the apostle surely admired some things about the city and respected its history, what struck him most was the idolatry rampant in Athens. Paul looked at the city from a Christian perspective. In this we see an illustration of what it means to have a Christian worldview.
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Paul in Athens - Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout ...
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Paul Preaches in Athens. 16 While Paul was waiting for them...
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Jan 14, 2021 · Fast forward to first century Athens, there we read about how Paul was standing in the Aeropaus in the very place where Epimenides stood centuries before telling them to build altars and sacrifice to the unknown god so they could be saved.
Jan 2, 2015 · Paul in Athens. Acts 17:16-34 Paul preaches in the synagogue at Athens (see 5 on Map 24), and also discusses with the Greek philosophers in the Ancient Agora (the market place). In this city of many pagan gods and goddesses, Paul reveals the nature of the ‘unknown god’ whose inscription he has seen on a pagan altar.
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First he went into the synagogue, as his custom was, and there spoke to the religious people, the Jews and devout persons who were there. These Jews (and the Greeks who were following Judaism) were opposed to the idolatry of the city, but could do nothing to prevent it. There was nothing they said that could help the city. They themselves were deli...
Then there were the common citizens of the city whom he met in the marketplace, the agora of ancient Greece -- tradesmen, people going about their business, commercial people coming in with their wares to the city square. There he met them and talked with them. Here were people who were unthinking victims of the idolatry that held the city in its g...
Then there was a third group, the philosophers. These were men who were delivered themselves from the crass idolatry of the city, but who were offering, as an alternative, the barren concepts of pagan philosophy. There are two kinds mentioned here, the Epicureans and the Stoics. Now, do not think that we have left Epicureanism and Stoicism behind, ...
If you visit Athens today you will be taken up a small rocky hill without buildings, west of the Acropolis, and told that this is the Mars Hill where Paul addressed the Athenian philosophers. I question that this is so, although the word Areopagus does mean Mars Hill. But it was also the name given to a court of judges who had the final authority i...
Then he said, \"As I've been walking about, I found an altar to an unknown god.\" There were several of these in Athens. Many centuries before, a plague had been arrested by turning loose a flock of sheep within the city. Wherever the sheep were found they were slain and offered to a god. If they were slain near the altar of a recognized god they w...
Just last week, Mr. Roper was telling the staff of a young man who came up to him at a rally at Stanford. This young man, obviously upset, his eyes wild, rushed up to him, and seizing him by the shoulders and shaking him, said, \"Can you tell me where I can find Dave Roper?\" Dave said he felt almost like denying he knew him, but gulped, and admitt...
We have not moved very far from ancient idolatry. In the ancient world, they took a piece of gold or silver or wood and carved or formed an idol, thus worshipping the works of men's hands. Today we don't use images, but we still see men worshipping themselves, projected to infinite proportions. Man simply thinks of himself, projects this into infin...
But right along with this the apostle mentions the tragedy of man. \"Being God's offspring [which even your pagan poets recognize is true], we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.\" He is saying that, if it is true that we are made with a capacity for God, if we kno...
Even in that degraded estate, there is a recognizable a capacity for God. The tragedy is that this capacity is being prostituted into something less than the God for which it was designed. That is what moved Paul so strongly.
Paul Preaches in Athens. 16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply troubled by all the idols he saw everywhere in the city. 17 He went to the synagogue to reason with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and he spoke daily in the public square to all who happened to be there.
Jun 7, 2023 · How Did Paul Draw on Greek Thinking When He Preached in Athens? In addressing the philosophers in Athens, Paul demonstrated a remarkable ability to draw on Greek thinking and philosophy to communicate the Gospel effectively.
Oct 8, 2024 · During his visit to Athens, Paul had encountered an altar to an “Unknown God.” Local legend told of a devastating plague that had once swept through Athens. The people sacrificed to every god in the pantheon, but the gods did not stop the plague.
