Acts 17:24-29
blood "blood" is not in the best manuscripts. R.V. omits. For we Found in the sritings of Aratus and Cleanthes. offspring of God (Greek - γένος = "race)." The reference is to the creation-work of God in which He made man (i.e. mankind, the race in Adam) in his own likeness, Genesis 1:26,27, thus rebuking the thought that "the Godhead is like unto gold," etc. The word "Father" is not used, not does the passage affirm anything concerning fatherhood or sonship, which are relationships based on faith, and the new birth. Cf John 1:12,13; Galatians 3:26; 4:1-7; John 5:1.
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