In his famous speech to some Athenians “in the midst of the Areopagus,” Paul referenced Greek stoics and the fact that they had philosophized their way into the truth about God’s existence.
This truth was being ignored by the creation of their panoply of gods, including a statue with the inscription: “to the unknown god” (cf. Acts 17:22-31). This cognizance of God is well represented in Greek liter…
