Myth Became Fact: Storytelling, Imagination, and Apologetics in the Bible by Brian Godawa

Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Embedded Pictures Publishing
Published: 2012-11-15T18:30:00+00:00

Verse 25

“Nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things,”

The idea that God does not need humankind, but that humankind needs God as its creator and sustainer is common enough in Hebrew thought (Psa. 50:9–12), but as Dibelius points out:

The use of the word “serve” is, however, almost unknown in the Greek translation of the Bible, but quite familiar in original Greek (pagan) texts, and in the context with which we are acquainted. The deity is too great to need my “service,” we read in the famous chapter of Xenophon’s Memorabilia, which contains the teleological proof of God.[140]

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