[GCFL-discuss] Ephesians

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I'm sorry Siarlys, what are you trying to argue about this time? I really
don't understand what you're against on this one this time.

Lance
John 8:32 "You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free."

On Sun, 30 May 2004 18:42:05 -0500 gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net writes:
> A separate note to the anonymous person who quoted from Ephesians
> 4:17-24:
> 
> The Ephesians who Paul was writing to were Greeks. Greek culture was 
> in a
> state of decay. Most of the more intellectual or philosophical 
> Greeks had
> abandoned faith in the primitive gods of Olympus (Zeus, Hera, 
> Aphrodite,
> Athena, Apollo, etc.), but worship in their temples went on for 
> fun,
> pleasure and money. Conquest by Rome had stunted any new growth in 
> Greek
> culture. Without much purpose for anything, people tended toward
> hedonistic pleasures, as Paul describes. A small number had 
> converted to
> the Jewish faith, influenced by Jews who had settled in the city. 
> But
> most had not embraced faith in an omnipresent one and only God (who 
> could
> not be represented by an idol) until Paul brought the Gospel of 
> Jesus
> Christ. That is what Paul was addressing in the cited passage. 
> 
> Siarlys