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Paul and truth

Scripture, Truth & Culture. Paul and truth. Dr. Mike Stallard Baptist Bible Seminary. More on Postmodernism. Reader response Prisoners of language and culture Theology as a doing and not a knowing Minimizing of transcultural truth. http://chestofbooks.com/.

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Paul and truth

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  1. Scripture, Truth & Culture Paul and truth Dr. Mike Stallard Baptist Bible Seminary

  2. More on Postmodernism • Reader response • Prisoners of language and culture • Theology as a doing and not a knowing • Minimizing of transcultural truth http://chestofbooks.com/

  3. The Apostle Paul in AthensActs 17:16-34

  4. The Mindset of Paul (Acts 17:16) • Paul is alone in Athens • Paul is angered by the idolatry of Athens • Implications • We should be angered by idolatry and false worship • A personal illustration • We can evaluate other cultures and beliefs and properly say they are wrong

  5. The Ministry of Paul (Acts 17:17-18) • Three venues of Paul’s ministry • The Jewish synagogue • The marketplace (agora) • Greek philosophers • Epicureans – sought the absence of pain • Stoics -- most did not believe in the afterlife

  6. The Ministry of Paul (Acts 17:17-18) • Two questions for Paul from the Greeks • Idle babbler • Proclaimer of strange deities (plural) Jesus Anastasis • Implications for postmodernists • They are right that cultural differences make communication difficult • They are wrong that the difficulty cannot be overcome

  7. The Message of Paul (Acts 17:19-31) • Areopagus or Mars Hill (v. 19) • Greek philosophy or Bible truth? • The sermon of Paul (v. 22-31)

  8. The Message of Paul (Acts17:19-31) • God as Creator (17:22-29) • God who made the world (v. 24-25) • God the Creator of the original human pair (v. 26) • Necessity to know this Creator (v. 27) • All men are God’s offspring (v. 28-29) • A personal illustration about creation and resurrection

  9. The Message of Paul (Acts17:19-31) • Repentance (v. 30) • God’s mercy • Definition of repentance – change of mind/posture • Relationship to faith • See Acts 20:21 • Assurance issues

  10. The Message of Paul (Acts17:19-31) • Judgment (v. 31) • People are accountable for their sins • History is going somewhere • Greek understanding of judgment (Hades) • Jesus is the basis for the coming judgment • exclusive belief in Jesus as the only way -- not postmodern

  11. The Message of Paul (Acts17:19-31) • Resurrection (v. 31) • Did Jesus talk about the Cross? • Resurrection proves Jesus’ appointment as Judge • The significance of the resurrection

  12. Response to Paul’s Message (Acts17:32-34) • Some sneered or mocked (v. 32) • Immortality of soul • Greeks wanted freedom from the body • Some put any decision off till later (v. 32) • Some believed (v. 33-34)

  13. Conclusion • Paul does not use reader response in interpreting the Bible or Greek poets • It is possible to communicate cross-culturally even in the midst of misunderstanding • There are many transcultural truths including creation and the gospel • Paul was not a postmodernist

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