32 How the Church Has Changed the World walking about your city and looking at your objects of worship, I found one for every god imaginable. I even found an altar with this inscription: to the unknown god. So it seems that you do not know whom you worship—but I will reveal him to you. “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He does not dwell in man-made temples, nor does he need our service. Rather, he himself gives to all men their very life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations spread abroad over the earth—even yours. He it was who brought them high and low, who made them great and small again.” At that some of the Athenians glared; others looked to the ground. “Why has he done so, you ask? So that they would seek him and reach out for him and find him! But he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. One of your own lovers of wisdom has said so! And we are his children—so says one of your own poets. “Men of Athens, it is time to give up your ignorance. Since we are the children of God, we should not think that he is like gold or silver or stone, which we have fashioned by our hands. It is time to turn toward the truth, and life! For God once overlooked that ignorance, but now he commands all men to repent. He has set a day when
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