In Him We Live, Move, and Have Our Being

Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers engaged him in discussion. Some asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others said, "He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities," because he was preaching about 'Jesus' and 'Resurrection.' Acts17:18

Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. Acts1722:23

The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. Acts 17:24-29

Today people grope for Him and after the thousands of years of pondering Him, we find a culture that seeks personal divinity in the gold and silver of our time. That includes materialism, consumerism, obsession with sex, power and fame.