Acts 36. Acts 17:16-34
Some of your own poets (17:28). “In him we live and move and have our being” is from the Cretan poet Epimenides. “We are his offspring” is found in works both by Aratus and Cleanthes. All these poets were popular with Stoics, who understood the God in their poems to be the Logos—divine Reason, the world-soul. 1. How does Luke describe Athens and its people (see 17:16,21)? ' the city was full of idols' '"... Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new' 2. What did the cultured men think of Paul, and why (see 17:18,32)? What does this babbler wish to say?” “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”. "babbler" = seed-picker. No depth. Promoting one belief over another. "Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, 'We will hear you again about this'.” The resurrection was a historically verifiable claim...