Bible Verses About Philosophy

He makes nations great and destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.

He removes understanding from a country's leaders and makes them wander in trackless deserts.

"But in this, you are wrong; I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.

Why do you strive against him? He will not defend his words

God speaks once, even twice, and still the hearer misses the point.

"In a dream, in a vision at night, when slumber falls upon people, as they sleep in their beds,

he opens people's ears and seals the matter with a warning,

to turn a person away from his action and protect a man from pride,

so that he will keep himself away from the pit and from perishing by the sword.

"He is also warned by pain when in bed, when all his bones are hurting;

so that he detests bread as well as richer food.

His flesh wastes away, till one can't stand to look; his bones protrude and become unsightly.

His soul comes close to the pit and his life to those who bring death.

"If there is for him an angel, a mediator, one among a thousand, who can vouch for the man's uprightness;

then [God] is gracious to him and says, 'Redeem him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.'

His flesh becomes fresher than that of a child, he returns to the days of his youth.

He prays to God and is accepted by him, so that he sees [God's] face with joy, and [God] repays the man for his righteousness.

He declares before everyone, 'I sinned; I perverted what was right, and it gained me nothing.

[God] redeemed me from going into the pit, and now my life sees light.'

God will accomplish all these things twice, even three times, with a man,

to bring him back from the pit, so that he can enjoy the light of the living.

God gets glory from concealing things; kings get glory from investigating things.

Also a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers started meeting with him. Some asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others, because he proclaimed the Good News about Yeshua and the resurrection, said, “He sounds like a propagandist for foreign gods.”

because what is known about God is plain to them, since God has made it plain to them.

For ever since the creation of the universe his invisible qualities — both his eternal power and his divine nature — have been clearly seen, because they can be understood from what he has made. Therefore, they have no excuse;