theBible
Acts 17:28
한국어 성경 1910
우리가 그를 힘입어 살며 기동하며 있느니라 너희 시인 중에도 어떤 사람들의 말과 같이 우리가 그의 소생이라 하니 Acts 17:28 (KRV)
Estudiar este versículo en contexto
Explicación del versículo
Acts 17:28 shows Paul engaging a pagan audience without flattering paganism. He uses language from their world to expose their failure to know the God who gives life.
Contexto en el capítulo
At the Areopagus Paul is not praising Athenian spirituality. He is confronting idolatry and pressing his hearers toward repentance by proclaiming the God they have ignored.
This verse is often used to justify vague spirituality. In context it does the opposite: God’s nearness in creation makes rebellion more guilty, not less.
Paul is not endorsing pagan poets wholesale. He is seizing a true fragment in order to press home the claims of the living God.
Isaiah also ties life and breath directly to God’s sustaining action.
Paul later roots all created life and continued coherence in Christ himself.
Puntos de enseñanza
- Common language can be used missionally without surrendering revelation.
- God’s sustaining presence leaves humanity without excuse.
- Faithful witness exposes idolatry rather than decorating it.
Preguntas de estudio bíblico
- Where do modern Christians confuse cultural contact with spiritual approval?
- How does Paul move from shared language to a call for repentance?
Creation apologetics becomes a summons to repent before the risen Judge
Abrir
Paul does not stop at common ground. He moves from the God who made all things to the command that all people everywhere must repent because the risen man appointed by God will judge the world.
Personas, lugares, eventos y trasfondo
Personas
Paul Paul models bold, intelligent witness before a skeptical elite audience.
Athenian philosophers Stoic and Epicurean listeners represent a culture that was intellectually alive and spiritually blind.
Lugares
Areopagus A public civic-philosophical setting where Paul addresses the city’s thought-world directly.
Eventos
Areopagus address This sermon moves from creation and providence to repentance and coming judgment.
Trasfondo cultural
Quoted pagan poets Paul cites familiar lines from Greek culture, not to baptize pagan religion, but to show that even their own words leave them accountable before God.
comentarios