They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. (2 Peter 3:5)I believe that people who deny the existence of God decide to do so. I do not understand why, but it is a conscious decision made on some level. It may even be one that they may not be aware of, but there is some perceived need in that person to not believe in God.
People are hard-wired to believe in God. As beings made in his image, it is the most natural thing to do. And people almost always turn to God in times of difficulties. As someone once said, there are no atheists in foxholes. When people get in trouble, it is natural to call on One higher than they.
But why would they choose to deny God? Why would they go completely against their inborn nature and just decide to deny the most basic thing in life?
It may be the desire to go it alone, to do what they want with no punishment or feelings of guilt. It would be like the man who decides he will not love his wife or his children or his parents. He wants to be by himself and keep all he has for himself and the only way to do that is to get rid of people around him, and to get rid of any entanglements caused by love. He just gets rid of what he considers “impediments” to his happiness.
It may be the decision that they know better and feel the belief in a divine being is beneath their intellectual station. Their mind has become their god and they begin to worship themselves. That is secular humanism and is infecting our culture.
It also may be that they want to do something that they know to be wrong and feel guilty. So they try to get rid of the Source of the guilt, God. If they can detach their moral compass, they can set themselves free (or at least think so). Hollywood does this. The immoral lifestyle Hollywood lives is incompatible with the Christian lifestyle so they jettison belief in God.
Or if they keep that belief in a god, the god they believe in has morphed into something totally unlike the God of the Universe. He becomes a rubber stamp for what they want to do and helps them justify what they do. That is the homosexual god, one who wants them to do whatever they want to be “happy”. If being happy means perverting nature and doing things that are abnormal, then this god changes into one who empowers them.
But it is always made as a personal decision. It is a sad decision, one that is kind of pathetic in that it makes a person totally alone and without the grounding that man was made to have.
And ultimately they will be by themselves. Having denied God, they have made themselves alone. The only company they will have in the end will be that of another who made himself alone by defying God: satan. What a sad ending.
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