# Paul's take on God and Jesus

[Acts 17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17\&version=RSV):

> 22 So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op′agus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 <mark style="color:red;">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, 28 for</mark>
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> <mark style="color:red;">‘In him we live and move and have our being’;</mark>
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> <mark style="color:red;">as even some of your poets have said,</mark>
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> <mark style="color:red;">‘For we are indeed his offspring.’</mark>
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> <mark style="color:red;">29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead.”</mark>

[Colossians 1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201\&version=RSV)

> 13 He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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> #### The Supremacy of Christ
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> 15 He is the image of the invisible God, <mark style="color:red;">the first-born of all creation;</mark> 16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. <mark style="color:red;">18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.</mark> 19 For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.


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