So Simple.
Acts 17:24-31 In this passage the apostle Paul is addressing the gentiles of Greece.
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. For "In him we live and move and have our being" as even some of your poets have said, "For we too are his offspring." Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent because he has established a day on which he will "judge the world with justice" through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead.
I think this is the simplest and most straight-forward explanation of who God is and what he requires of us that I have ever read. HE IS! HE made the heavens and the earth and everything else. He cannot be found in buildings or statues made by human hands. He doesn't need us to exalt him. Yet without him, we are nothing. And you know the part that still blows my mind? HE asks so little of us. HE only asks that we repent of our sins, and we all sin. It's really all so simple. Why do so many people struggle?
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. For "In him we live and move and have our being" as even some of your poets have said, "For we too are his offspring." Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent because he has established a day on which he will "judge the world with justice" through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead.
I think this is the simplest and most straight-forward explanation of who God is and what he requires of us that I have ever read. HE IS! HE made the heavens and the earth and everything else. He cannot be found in buildings or statues made by human hands. He doesn't need us to exalt him. Yet without him, we are nothing. And you know the part that still blows my mind? HE asks so little of us. HE only asks that we repent of our sins, and we all sin. It's really all so simple. Why do so many people struggle?