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And understand that I am He. Before Me there
was no God formed, And there will be none after Me. “I, even I, am the LORD; And there is no savior besides
Me. (NASB) Isaiah 43:10b-11
 ooking for the unknown God? Most
people (92%) in the United States are religious according to the 1997 U.S. Census. Only 8 percent of the U.S.
population said they were not religious or did not respond to the survey. Most of them say that they have found
God or they are looking for God. A very small group says that they do not believe there is a God. For them
the Bible has a strong warning in Psalms 10:4, “The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does
not seek Him. All his thoughts are, ‘There is no God’” (NASB). If you desire to know about
God, we hope this study will help you to understand the God of the Bible. For Christians, this study can give
you a greater understanding of our God. Unknown God. Athens was a center of religious activity in the ancient world.
Today, one can find the ruins of such temples as the Temple of the Goddess Athene, the Temple of the Furies
and the Temple of Theseus. Athens was also known as the university city of the Roman world. Athenians were
very educated and yet very religious. Josephus called them the most pious of the Greeks. So it is no surprise
to find in Acts 17:22-28 that an altar had been dedicated to the “UNKNOWN GOD.” In fact, there
were many altars in Athens to unknown gods. So when the apostle Paul met some of the men of Athens, he said
they were “very religious” (Acts 17:22). Paul takes the opportunity to tell them about the God
they do not know, the “UNKNOWN GOD.” Who is God? According to Acts 17:24-27, Paul tells them there
are eight things that are true about their UNKNOWN GOD. What are the eight truths about God?
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| For someone to be sure that there is no God, one would need to know that a god did not exist anywhere in our visible and invisible universe. He or she would need infinite knowledge and ability to exist everywhere at once, because God might have traveled! In short, he or she would need to be God in order to do this. It is much easier, however, to conclude that God exists because we see the evidence of Him. |
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