The One True God

Acts 17: 22-24, 32-34

“22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. 24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands…

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” 33 At that, Paul left the Council. 34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.”

The people of Athens were not hungry for the truth but for the latest truth.  Over the course of time they had constructed idols to every god of which they were aware and even to the unknown gods of which they were not aware, just in case they existed.

Paul presented them with the truth of the one true God; God is not the made but the maker; God created and is involved in His creation; God made humans to search for and find the one true God; with the coming of Christ our search for God is over, the truth has been revealed; 

God the almighty is, and will always be the one true God.  

There are no other gods.

There is no unknown god.

Our God, the one true God, can be known and is no further away than a prayer.

May the love of Christ be with you,

Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)