AGNOSTIC
When Paul visited Athens, he noted that the pagans there had erected an altar to an "unknown" (agnostos) god (Acts 17:23). The apostle used that inscription as the basis of his sermon, in which he proclaimed to them the known God!
Paul used a kindred form of the word in his epistle to the saints at Corinth when he charged that some have "no knowledge" (
In a philosophical sense, an agnostic asserts that there is insufficient evidence to confidently affirm the existence of God. Hence, man cannot know, one way or the other, whether there is a supreme Being. Such an ideology was not endorsed by the great personalities of scripture (cf. Psa. 46:10; 2 Tim. 1:12), and it ignores a vast library of evidence that testifies otherwise, informing us of the truth.
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