Paul Quoted Pagan Poets????????????????

Paul quoted pagan poets???????????????? Yes. He quoted the poets Menander (1 Corinthians 15:33), Aratus of Cilicia (Acts 17:28), and Epimenides of Knossos (Titus 1:12). He did this because he was intimately familiar with the intellectual debates of his day and was capable of using non-Christian sources to make his points. His use of the sources was not intended as an endorsement of everything else their authors said and wrote.

Modern Christians make a mistake if they "ghettoize" themselves, reading only Christian sources, hearing only Christian voices, insulating themselves from the rest of the world. We can''t go (Matthew 28:19) into the world, evangelizing the world, if we cocoon ourselves away from the world. We are to be "in the world but not of the world." (John 17:14-15; Romans 12:1-2)