Acts 17:29-32

²⁹So, if it is true that we are God’s kids, we shouldn’t just dream up something and say, ‘My god looks like this,’ and then make a statue like that from gold or silver or stone. Nobody can make any kind of statue that is anything like God.

³⁰You know, people didn’t know about God at first, but he didn’t worry about it at that time. But now it is different. Now he says to all of us that we have to turn around and stop doing bad things,

³¹and if we don’t, he will give us big trouble. He is going to have a big court and all of us will have to stand in front of the judge. He has already set the date for this. It will be a fair court and he has picked one man to be the judge. That man died, but God made him alive again. God did that to show everybody he picked that man to be the big judge.”

³²The council men heard Paul say that a man died and then came alive again, and some of those council men laughed at Paul, and others said, “You can tell us more about this at some other time.”