THE BIBLE & GREECE: SEEKING WISDOM
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Bible And Greece
a) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. Seeking Wisdom
Paul characterizes the Greeks in this way: "the Greeks seek after wisdom" (1 Corinthians 1:22). But Paul knew the wisdom they had was not the wisdom they needed, but rather what they regarded as foolishness —the wisdom of the gospel of Christ crucified.
The End ...
1. The Bible And Greecea) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. Seeking Wisdom
Paul characterizes the Greeks in this way: "the Greeks seek after wisdom" (1 Corinthians 1:22). But Paul knew the wisdom they had was not the wisdom they needed, but rather what they regarded as foolishness —the wisdom of the gospel of Christ crucified.
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