My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
This is a follow up to this post Nothing Comes from nothing
I realized this after I wrote this. Paul was well aware of the culture and ideas of his day. He was writing to a Roman audience who would have been fully aware of the implications of his statement – “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So, they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20, ESV)
Paul understood his Roman audience and philosophy (ex. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle – some of this philosophy is still held as true, today) and purposely presented the eternal power and divine nature of God. He was demonstrating that aspects of who God is were known, but instead of pursuing bowing down to this, they made gods that were more comfortable and more palatable, gods that were less divine. These aspects his Roman audience knew and could not deny.
