Most Christians remember the story about Paul’s UNKNOWN “God” portion of scripture in Acts. It helps understand the nature of God and is He made up of 2 or 3 persons as Paul makes certain aspects very clear.
As you read the below portion of Scripture in which covers the UNKNOWN God story, please notice the “HE”, “HIM”, “Lord”, “His”, “God”. In verse 31 it shows that Jesus is separate from God. Paul does not ascribe any divinity to Jesus at all. On the contrary he calls Jesus a man.
Paul had a perfect moment to state that this God was One in 2 or 3 persons but he actually made the point that his God was One person only by the use of HE and other personal nouns and stating that Jesus was a man.
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Acts 17:22-31 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;
(23) for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD (theos) [1]. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
(24) God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
(25) Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.
(26) And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
(27) so that they should seek the Lord (kurios) [2] , in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
(28) for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
(29) Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.
(30) Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
(31) because He (God The Father) has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him (Jesus) from the dead.”
In verse 31 above Paul makes it clear that Jesus is the man that God has ordained so that through Jesus, He (God) would judge the world in righteousness. He (God The Father) has given us an assurance of this by raising Jesus from the dead.
By using personal nouns like Him and He he confirms that his God is a singularly God who has made world and everything it including men and woman. This reinforces and correlates with Genesis 1 with the use of Elohim for a single God.
Notes
[1] Strongs Dictionary Meaning of Kurios (G2962) which is translated Lord
From kuros (supremacy); supreme in authority, that is, (as noun) controller; by implication Mr. (as a respectful title): – God, Lord, master, Sir. Total KJV occurrences: 748
[2] Strongs Dictionary Meaning of Greek word Theos (G2316) for God Of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively a magistrate; by Hebraism very: – X exceeding, God, god [-ly, -ward]. Total KJV occurrences
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