For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack
When in Athens in mid first century Paul preached apologetically, carefully laying his foundation to preach Christ and the resurrection of the dead. There near the Acropolis in Athens, Paul preached to atheistic Epicureans and pantheistic Stoics, he used the writings of well known poets of the day, perhaps one of the monotheistic Atatus, Epimenides or Cleanthes.
Jude, Jesus’ half brother and an acknowledged leader of the first century Church in Jerusalem referred to at least two extra-Biblical sources, the cited portions therein thus certified to be historically accurate.