epicureans in A Sentence

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    Some were Epicureans, who emphasized pleasure.

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    However, were the Epicureans truly like the early Christians?

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    The Epicureans even refrained from political involvement and secret wrongdoing.

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    A Challenging Audience( a) What beliefs and views marked the Epicureans?

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    The Epicureans urged living so as to obtain as much pleasure as possible, especially mental pleasure.

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    Some may have reasoned that the Epicureans' apparently high ethics made them safe associates for Christians.

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    The Epicureans were followers of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who lived from 341 to 270 B.C. E.

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    Thus the Epicureans may have appeared virtuous when compared with those practicing gross sin.- Compare Titus 1: 12.

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    If you were a member of the early Corinthian congregation, would you have been impressed by the Epicureans?

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    If dying-and-rising gods were plentiful in the first century, why, when the apostle Paul preached Jesus rising from the dead, did the Epicureans and Stoics not remark,“Ah, just like Horus and Mithras”?

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    In fact, when the apostle Paul spoke at the Areopagus, likely the Epicureans were among those who took issue with Paul over the doctrine of the resurrection.- Acts 17: 18, 31, 32; 1 Corinthians 15: 12- 14.

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