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date: 2007-03-20 07:45:02
subject: Paul Preaches The Gospel To The Stupid Athenians At The Aeropagus

From: "codebreaker{at}bigsecret.com" 

Notice the Gospel and not the Gospels in plural as If there were many but ONE
and that Gospel was preached without a written book being involved nor
Luke, nor Matthew, nor Mark.
Folks, the Gospel is not a written book


The Gospel According to Paul

16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to
see that the city was full of idols. 17So he reasoned in the synagogue with
the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by
day with those who happened to be there. 18A group of Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is
this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be
advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching
the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. 19Then they took him and
brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him,
"May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20You
are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they
mean." 21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent
their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest
ideas.)
 22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men
of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I
walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found
an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as
something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of
heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is
not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself
gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made
every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he
determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should
live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for
him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him
we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said,
'We are his offspring.'

 29"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that
the divine being is like gold or silver or stone-an image made by man's
design and skill. 30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he
commands all people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when he
will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given
proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."  Act

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