Bible verses about "atheism" | BBE

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

³⁷ If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not have belief in me;

⁴⁴ No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

²² But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart. ²³ And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble. ²⁴ For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong, ²⁵ Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, ²⁶ And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you; ⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it. ⁹ Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man. ¹¹ Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth? ¹² Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge. ¹³ With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his. ¹⁴ Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose. ¹⁵ Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned. ¹⁶ With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands; ¹⁷ He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish; ¹⁸ He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them; ¹⁹ He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions; ²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old; ²¹ He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong; ²² Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright; ²³ Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up. ²⁴ He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way. ²⁵ They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

¹ But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits, ² Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron; ³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge. ⁴ Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise: ⁵ For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.

¹⁹ Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. ²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

²⁴ You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

¹⁸ Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

²² And have pity on those who are in doubt;