“What is Atheism?”……Atheism is the view that God does not exist. Atheism is not a new development. Psalm 14:1, written by David in around 1000 B.C., mentions atheism:

Psalm 14:1

Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God."They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!

Recent statistics show an increasing number of people claiming to be atheists, up to 10 percent of people worldwide. So why are more and more people becoming atheists? Is atheism truly the logical position atheists claim it to be?……Why does atheism even exist?

Why doesn't God simply reveal Himself to people, proving that He exists?

Surely if God would just appear, the thinking goes, everyone would believe in Him! The problem here is that it is not God's desire to just convince people that He exists.

It is God's desire for people to believe in Him by faith

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

and accept by faith His gift of salvation

John 3:16

"For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life..

God clearly demonstrated His existence many times in the Old Testament (Genesis 6-9; Exodus 14:21-22; 1 Kings18:19-31).

Did the people believe that God exists? Yes.

Did they turn from their evil ways and obey God? No.

If a person is not willing to accept God's existence by faith, then he/she is definitely not ready to accept Jesus Christ as Savior by faith

Ephesians 2:8-9

God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it..

God's desire is for people to become Christians, not just theists (those who believe God exists).……The Bible tells us that God's existence must be accepted by faith.

Hebrews 11:6

And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.

The Bible reminds us that we are blessed when we believe and trust in God by faith:

John 20:29

Then Jesus told him, "You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me."

The existence of God must be accepted by faith, but this does not mean belief in God is illogical. There are many good arguments for the existence of God.

The Bible teaches that God's existence is clearly seen in the universe

Psalm 19:1-4…The heavens proclaim the glory of God.The skies display his craftsmanship.… Day after day they continue to speak;night after night they make him known.… They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard.[a]… Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world.God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.

Thtough the sensed in nature

Romans 1:18-22…But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.

He confirmed it in our own hearts

Ecclesiastes 3:11… Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.……At the same time, it takes just as much faith to believe in atheism. To make the absolute statement "God does not exist" is to make a claim of knowing absolutely everything there is to know about everything and of having been everywhere in the universe and having witnessed everything there is to be seen. Of course, no atheist would make these claims. However, that is essentially what they are claiming when they state that God absolutely does not exist. Atheists cannot prove that God does not, for example, live in the center of the sun, or beneath the clouds of Jupiter, or in some distant nebula. Since those places are beyond our capacity to observe, it cannot be proven that God does not exist. It takes just as much faith to be an atheist as it does to be a theist.……Atheism cannot be proven, and God's existence must be accepted by faith. Obviously, Christians believe strongly that God exists, and admit that God's existence is a matter of faith. At the same time, we reject the idea that belief in God is illogical. We believe that God's existence can be clearly seen, keenly sensed, and proven to be philosophically and scientifically necessary. "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world" (Psalm 19:1-4 above).

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