artifacts and revelatory facts

This is the Theatre of Dionysius. When Paul gave his famous sermon on Mars Hill in Athens, he was standing not far from this site.

It makes heart and mind and spirit wonder. Artifacts endure in their way. Revelatory facts endure in theirs.

Revelation is given in the midst of visceral stone and flesh and heat and grime, in the midst of brute power and inexpressible suffering, in the midst of the heights of culture and the depths of depravity.

Here is one artifact in the state that it is in, in all of its blemished beauty.

Here is the revelatory fact in the state that it is in, from the One who everyday makes all things new:

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Acts 17.24-31 … "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, "nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. "And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, "that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, "for 'In him we live and move and have our being' as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we are indeed his offspring.' "Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, "because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."