January
20, 2005
Who
Made the World and Everything in It
"Therefore,
the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to
you. God, who made the world and everything in it, since He
is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made
with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though
He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and
all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of
men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined
their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might
grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each
one of us. 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.'
"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. Truly, these times of ignorance
God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
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." Acts. 17:23-31.
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