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The God who made the whole world and everything in it is the Lord of the land and the sky. He does not live in temples built by human hands.
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This God is the One who gives life, breath, and everything else to people. He does not need any help from them; he has everything he needs.
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God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.
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God wanted them to look for him and perhaps search all around for him and find him, though he is not far from any of us:
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'We live in him. We walk in him. We are in him.' Some of your own poets have said: 'For we are his children.'
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Since we are God's children, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make from gold, silver, or rock.
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In the past, people did not understand God, and he ignored this. But now, God tells all people in the world to change their hearts and lives.
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God has set a day that he will judge all the world with fairness, by the man he chose long ago. And God has proved this to everyone by raising that man from the dead!"
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When the people heard about Jesus being raised from the dead, some of them laughed. But others said, "We will hear more about this from you later."
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So Paul went away from them.
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But some of the people believed Paul and joined him. Among those who believed was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and some others.