are you responding to me here? if so, when the poet and Paul on the areopagus say Children of God, are they talking about all humans?
Beatcha to the punch LOL
Lets' take a good look at this and you will see that it clearly complements what I have been saying about being reborn in Christ Jesus.
Acts 17:19-28
19 And they took him, and brought him unto
Areopagus, saying , May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest , is?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean .
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell , or to hear some new thing.)
22 Then
Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said , Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 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.
24 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;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing
he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 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;
27 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:
28 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.
Poets are plural, Paul stating that these were performers that said they were made by the unknown God that they worshipped.
Poets=4163. poietes poy-ay-tace' from 4160; a performer; specially, a "poet"; --doer, poet.
Offspring means "kin."
*I mentioned these scriptures prevously that relate to verse 24
Mark 14:58 We heard him say , I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
1 Corinthians 9:16 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive , because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry , Abba, Father.
Acts 17:24 relate perfectly with all the scriptures above.
*dwelleth not in temples made with hands;