Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

A person who says there is no God is foolish, says the Bible, and for two reasons.

One is for the consequences of that choice, and the other is for the reasons for that choice.

Of course, a person who rejects the existence of God rejects also the idea of an afterlife in which he will face the God whom he denies and that he will fare bad for his choices.  But not believing in God doesn’t mean that a person won’t face God.

But then it’s hard to fault an atheist for being foolish, when this whole afterlife thing is out of our experience.

But the Bible does fault the atheist for his choice of not believing in God.

The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19) and that His invisible attributes are clearly seen and understood by the things that are made, so that those who don’t believe in God are without excuse (Romans 1:18-20).

I have had occasion to have had all manner of medical tests in the last few years, and it has made me more aware of the marvel of the human body.  A simple blood test might look for 30 different microscopic components that must be in perfect balance for a person to function normally. 

All the various organs of the body are dependent on a circulatory system that transports oxygen to every cell of the body, such that you need a fully developed heart and fully developed lungs and a fully developed circulatory system for the whole thing to work.  You can’t have a functioning living thing until everything is in place. 

So it can’t live until you have everything working together, but how can it develop if it is not living?  You can’t have the survival of the fittest until the fittest is living.

It takes far more faith to not believe in a God than to believe in Him.