Acts 17:29

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity ¹  is like gold or silver or stone, an image ²  made by human ³  skill ⁴  and imagination. ⁵ 

Ex 20:4; Ex 32:4; Ps 94:7-9; Ps 106:20; Ps 115:4-8; Isa 40:12-18; Isa 44:9-20; Isa 46:5,6; Jer 10:4-10; Hab 2:19,20; Ro 1:20-23

¹ tn Or “the divine being.” BDAG 446 s.v. θεῖος 1.b has “divine being, divinity” here.

² tn Or “a likeness.” Again idolatry is directly attacked as an affront to God and a devaluation of him.

³ tn Grk “by the skill and imagination of man,” but ἀνθρώπου (anqrwpou) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

⁴ tn Or “craftsmanship” (cf. BDAG 1001 s.v. τέχνη).

⁵ tn Or “thought.” BDAG 336 s.v. ἐνθύμησις has “thought, reflection, idea” as the category of meaning here, but in terms of creativity (as in the context) the imaginative faculty is in view.