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To: D-fendr
I wonder if the same thinking would have it that Paul just renamed the pagan “unknown god” Jesus.

No, that is NOT what Paul did. What he DID do was to tell the men in Athens that the temple they dedicated to The Unknown God - hoping that any they left out wouldn't be offended and do bad things to them, built a temple to basically "any and all gods, etc.", that there was only, one true God:

Acts 17:22-24

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. 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;

1,175 posted on 11/06/2011 11:45:43 PM PST by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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To: boatbums
No, that is NOT what Paul did

Well, I do believe you are beginning to grasp the point.

1,211 posted on 11/07/2011 9:11:38 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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