Bible Verses About Philosophy

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.

He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.