Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck

Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter verse-by-verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

the philosophies in Athens, as we pick up in Acts chapter 17, verse 18.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

The Epicurean philosophy was expressed in the Roman orgies where you would eat at these feasts

all that you could hold of the first course,

savoring and enjoying every bite,

and then between courses go out and forcefully regurgitate

so you could eat all that you could hold of the second course.

And eating for the pleasure of eating,

and seeking to measure the intensity of pleasure each taste brought to you. And so they were busy measuring degrees and intensities of pleasure.

This degrading of the Epicurean philosophy ended in the pantheism, the worship of everything,

anything, all things. The Stoics said that the chief good was virtue.

But a man cannot know virtue who is emotionally involved.

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