Bible verses about "atheism" | Moffatt

³⁷ If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me;

⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

²² So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife. ²⁴ And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries; ²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth; ²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

⁸ Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

¹⁴ The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

¹ But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach ² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience — ³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. ⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.

¹⁹ For whatever is to be known of God is plain to them; God himself has made it plain — ²⁰ for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.

²⁴ You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —

²² Snatch some from the fire, and have mercy on the waverers,