[xzins]

You better worry about Romans 2:14-15 and Romans 3:11 before you get around to worrying about Acts 17.

If there's a contradiction, then you've got Paul contradicting himself in his own letter within verses of each statement.

[Alamo-Girl]

I only have a moment before I have to take care of some domestic chores, but wanted to mention something concerning Romans 3:11. Here is how that verse reads in context, i.e. not being justified by the Law:

What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. – Romans 3:9-20

Taken in context, it does not conflict with Acts 17.

[Frumanchu]

You better worry about Romans 2:14-15 and Romans 3:11 before you get around to worrying about Acts 17.

If there's a contradiction, then you've got Paul contradicting himself in his own letter within verses of each statement.

Are you going to play games again, xzins, or are you going to answer a very direct and unambiguous question? I'll be more than happy to provide an explanation for Rom 2:14-15 and Romans 3:11 if you will answer the simply question I posed:

You say there is no apparent dilemma between Acts 17:27 and Romans 3:11 despite the fact that one speaks of men seeking God and the other says none seek God. As the statements appear on the surface to directly contradict each other, how do you reconcile the two?