In today’s GB News Daily Reflection, we acknowledge that for Christians, God is not ultimately an unknown force heading somewhere beyond creation.
“In Acts Chapter 17, verse 16 to 34, we read, for as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with inscription to the unknown God. What therefore you worship as unknown. This I proclaim to you.
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“Paul arrives in Athens and sees the city filled with religious devotion. There are temples, altars, images dedicated to different gods, but among them is something particularly interesting an altar dedicated to the unknown God.
“Even without knowing the God revealed in Jesus Christ, there was certainly a recognition that there was something beyond what they could see. Paul does not begin by simply condemning them.
“Instead, he begins with something they already recognise. He says, what therefore you worship as unknown. This I proclaim to you. Paul acknowledges their spiritual searching and then explains the Christian understanding of God that they do not yet know. There’s a lesson here in how faith can be communicated with truth, but also with respect.
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“The Christian faith proclaims that God has made himself known supremely through Jesus Christ. As Jesus says in John’s Gospel, whoever has seen me has seen the father.
“The God whom humanity searches for is the God Christians believe has reached out to all of humanity. The Athenians had questions. Paul had an answer rooted in his encounter with Jesus.”
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