ACTS 17:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.”
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 human design and skill — The logic of being offspring (genos) forbids idolatry: if humans are God's offspring, then God cannot resemble static human artifact. The inference is incisive: genealogy determines theology.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art. Acts 17:29 And yet for this reason we ought. By no means: for surely we are not like (to such), nor are these souls of ours. And imagination of man. How so? * * But some person might say, We do not think this. But it was to the many that he was addressing himself, not now to Philosophy. How then did they think so unworthily of Him? Again,…
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