Has the church changed so much that some really cannot relate with the Bible. Have we trod the path from Acts when Peter preached and 3,000 repented? The church has changed from a bible believing, monotheistic, well accustomed to digging deep into scripture and willing to talk about it. The group to which Peter in Acts 2 were like that, full of knowledge and willing to understand and accept the teachings of the new rabbi. But the church has become like the audience in Acts 17:22, “I see that in every way you are religious.” Paul walked around in their city and what he saw was great belief in the wrong things. They even had an altar with the title, “To an unknown God.” He accused the believers in all the religions that abounded and simply told them, “you are ignorant of the very thing you worship.”
Have we come so far as to having a form of religion without the very reason for that effort? Isn’t Paul’s logic still hold true:
24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”