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Upon arriving in Athens, Paul was provoked to teach because the city was full of idols.
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He taught in the synagogue and in the marketplace of every day.
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One day, the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers brought him to the Areopagus and asked him to explain his message to them, because they were unfamiliar with Jesus’ life.
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Paul started preaching to them about the true God, the only living God amid all their stone idols and altars to false gods who only existed in their imaginations.
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Paul told them the God he served made the heavens and the earth and was too great to be contained in a temple constructed by men.
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He described God as the Father of all mankind who gives and sustains life.
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Being the offspring of such a great Father, Paul encouraged the Athenians not to think “that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, and image formed by the art and imagination of men.”
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God was calling all men to repent because a judgement day was coming.
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Some of the Athenians mocked Paul’s message, but others were curious.
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A few became believers, including Dionysius and Damaris.
