Hechos 17:29

29 Y, como esto es cierto, no debemos pensar en Dios como un ídolo diseñado por artesanos y hecho de oro, plata o piedra.

Hechos 17:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 17:29

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God
In the sense before given; for the apostle is not here speaking of himself, and other saints, as being the children of God, by adoption, and by regenerating grace, and faith in Christ Jesus, but as men in common with others, and with these Athenians:

we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver,
or stone, graven by art and man's device;
for men themselves, who are the offspring of God, and made after his image, are not to be compared to graven images of gold, silver, and stone, but are vastly preferable to them, they being formed by their art, and the device of their minds; and much less then should God, the Creator of men, and from whom they spring, be likened to, or represented by, any such thing; for so to think of God, is to think very unworthily of him; for if to think thus of ourselves, who are descended from him, would be a debasing of us, then much more to think so of God, the Father of spirits, must be a depreciating of him; and which by no means ought to be done, and argues great stupidity: if living rational creatures are not to be equalled to, and compared with, senseless statues, much less God, the former of men and angels.

Hechos 17:29 In-Context

27 »Su propósito era que las naciones buscaran a Dios y, quizá acercándose a tientas, lo encontraran; aunque él no está lejos de ninguno de nosotros.

28 Pues en él vivimos, nos movemos y existimos. Como dijeron algunos de sus
propios poetas: “Nosotros somos su descendencia”.

29 Y, como esto es cierto, no debemos pensar en Dios como un ídolo diseñado por artesanos y hecho de oro, plata o piedra.

30 »En la antigüedad Dios pasó por alto la ignorancia de la gente acerca de estas cosas, pero ahora él manda que todo el mundo en todas partes se arrepienta de sus pecados y vuelva a él.

31 Pues él ha fijado un día para juzgar al mundo con justicia por el hombre que él ha designado, y les demostró a todos quién es ese hombre al levantarlo de los muertos».