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NOW THAT HE HAS GOT THEIR ATTENTITION
He points our the many gods around the Agora.

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Άγνωστο θεό Act 17:19

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Athens is the home of ancient of art and literature. It was the university center of the ancient world. It was the eye of Greece, the mother of art and eloquence, a city filled with the memories of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Euripides and the list could go on and on.

Here was the home Xenophon the historian.

In the Agora, Socrates walked and taught his students, in the olive grove was the academy of Plato; In the Lyceum was the classroom of Aristotle.

The Parthenon the most impressive temple of all crowned the Acropolis. In 1966 I made my first visit to Athens I wanted to …show more content…

Meeting-place of the ancient council or court of Athens, also known as the "council of the Areopagus". Situated west of the Athenian Acropolis, Its functions varied from time to time, originally limited to cases of capital crime, and in mythology the Areopagus was a court of homicide. At other times the court dealt with legal, political, educational and religious affairs.

This is the outdoor court, famous for its past history of harsh and death penalty punishments.

This was the place where a classical judicial body met. Areopagus, the Romans called it Mars Hill after the Roman god of war. This was next to the Agora the, Areopagus is the site of the trial of Orestes for killing his mother ( Clyemnestre ) and her lover (Aegisthus). some say this was the court that condemned Socrates and sentenced him to death by drinking a hemlock-based liquid.

Now Paul is led to the Areopagus by the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers (Acts 17:16-20). Paul addressed them, but when he spoke of the Resurrection, they mocked him.

Sometimes we don’t see God in the things that come our way.

We think the only time or place to minister is in a typical church atmosphere . Look at Paul, No, padded pews, no, carpeted isles, No, stained glass windows, not even a …show more content…

For fear of falling off the edge of the earth as they thought the earth was flat. Paul in verse 26 assures him that God, “has no bounds of habitation”.

Somewhere in the crowd stand a Greek soldier, reluctant to leave the altar of Ares (god of war), for they are tough to return with their shield or return on their shield. When this soldier leaves for battle, he leaves his god behind, Paul tell him, Verse 27”our God is not far from us.”

Leaning against the old Roman column, we see a student, who is on his journey seeking wisdom, searching for something to fill the void in his soul, Paul assures him in verse. 27 “haply you might find him”.

Standing near the front to be seen stands a judge, dressed in his tribunal robe, waiting eagerly to hear what Paul has to say, now he hears him verse 31,”for He hath appointed a day he will judge the world”.

As Paul stand in that open courtyard, on the East, he can see two gods, Dionysus, “fruit of the vine” & Baachus, “god of agriculture ".

On the west, stands two more gods, asulepulis, “god of healing”, hija “god of health”

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