Bible verses about "atheism" | Goodspeed

³⁷ If I am not doing the things my Father does, do not believe me.

⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

²² Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts. ²³ Avoid foolish, crude speculations; you know they only lead to quarrels, ²⁴ and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful, ²⁵ correcting his opponents with gentleness; for God may possibly let them repent and acknowledge the truth, ²⁶ and they may yet return to their senses and escape from the toils of the devil, who has caught them to make them do his will.

⁸ Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

¹⁴ A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

¹ The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach ² through the pretensions of liars—men with seared consciences ³ who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for. ⁴ For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by prayer and the Scripture used in it.

¹⁹ For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them. ²⁰ Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature—his eternal power and divine character—have been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,

²⁴ You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.

¹⁸ They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

²² Those whom you pity in their uncertainty,