He suggested their image to 'the unknown god' was possibly the real god, and introduced them to the Creator God, whose desire it is that people seek and find God; they are God's offspring, after all.
He wound-up his argument (as much as is recorded) with the thought that God is going to wrap things up one day, judging the entire world according to righteousness.
Significantly, God will do that vicariously, through a man.
Part of the significance of that is the final 'judgement' of the Earth by God will be carried out by a human.
Part of the significance is that Paul never identifies that man, save for pointing out it was the same man God raised from the dead (the issue which caused them to ridicule him and his teaching).
He never said it was Jesus.
The point I'm getting at is that it is a man that will judge at the end of time.
When everything is being wrapped-up and reconciliation is finalized across the cosmos, when all things are finally set-right, it will be the man, Jesus, who is charged with that responsibility, not God, or God-Man.
That is astounding, for it indicates that this same Jesus, the Word who was in the beginning with God, and by whom all things were created, is now at the right hand of God, a man, and not God.
Why is that an issue?
Think of it; God went to the extremity of the extreme in representing and redeeming humanity, becoming human. That reconciliation will include all of God's creation (which creative activity was by the Word of God, preincarnate Jesus himself).
If you're willing to entertain such a thought, wrap your mind around that for a while.
It could change you ..
and me ..
" The times of ignorance God overlooked,
but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
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 by raising him from the dead. ”
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