Unknown God, An With reference to this God, nothing can be more appropriate than St. Paul’s address to the Athenians, as recorded in the 17th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles:
“Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too
superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions,
I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that
he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made
with hands; neither is worshiped with men’s hands, as though
he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath,
and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of
their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply
they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far
from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have
our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For
we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is
like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s
device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but
now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath
appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath
raised him from the dead.”
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