Re: Greatest People of All Time
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Also, just going for obscurity, there are probably very few men in history who have ever saved more lives than Ignatius Semmelweis.
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Jesus Saves FTW!
All kidding aside: Jesus (who's obviously in a class all by himself) is the number one person of all time!
An extremely distant second: all of the Apostles
An even more distant third: Socrates and Plato and their whole crowd (Socrates essentially preached the doctrine of moderation. Its interesting to note that God told Paul in a dream to go to the Greeks. Maybe God knew something about the Greeks philosophy and openess to God's word?)
I have to seriously study history to make any more nominations to this "Greatest People of All Time Group".
Acts 16 (The Message)
The Message (MSG)
Eugene H. Peterson
Acts 16
A Dream Gave Paul His Map
1-3Paul came first to Derbe, then Lystra. He found a disciple there by the name of Timothy, son of a devout Jewish mother and Greek father. Friends in Lystra and Iconium all said what a fine young man he was. Paul wanted to recruit him for their mission, but first took him aside and circumcised him so he wouldn't offend the Jews who lived in those parts. They all knew that his father was Greek.
4-5As they traveled from town to town, they presented the simple guidelines the Jerusalem apostles and leaders had come up with. That turned out to be most helpful. Day after day the congregations became stronger in faith and larger in size.
6-8They went to Phrygia, and then on through the region of Galatia. Their plan was to turn west into Asia province, but the Holy Spirit blocked that route. So they went to Mysia and tried to go north to Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus wouldn't let them go there either. Proceeding on through Mysia, they went down to the seaport Troas.
9-10That night Paul had a dream: A Macedonian stood on the far shore and called across the sea, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!" The dream gave Paul his map. We went to work at once getting things ready to cross over to Macedonia. All the pieces had come together. We knew now for sure that God had called us to preach the good news to the Europeans.
11-12Putting out from the harbor at Troas, we made a straight run for Samothrace. The next day we tied up at New City and walked from there to Philippi, the main city in that part of Macedonia and, even more importantly, a Roman colony. We lingered there several days.
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