Atheism

"The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. Psalm 14:1

"Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools." Proverbs 13:19

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them." Romans 1:18-32

HISTORIC CHURCH CONFESSIONS

Two historic church confessions offer almost identical statements on general and special revelation of God to humanity. Modern English versions of these historic confessions with proof text are provided here for the convenience of readers. 

From the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith

Chapter 1, Paragraph 1

"The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience, 1 although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and His will which is necessary unto salvation. 2 Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and to declare (that) His will unto His church; 3 and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan, and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; which makes the Holy Scriptures to be most necessary, those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now completed." 4

1 2 Timothy 3:15–17; Isaiah 8:20; Luke 16:29,31; Ephesians 2:20
2 Romans 1:19-21, 2:14–15; Psalm 19:1-3
3 Hebrews 1:1
4 Proverbs 22:19-21; Romans 15:4; 2 Peter 1:19–20

From the Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 1, Paragraph 1

"Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; 1 yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of His will, which is necessary unto salvation: 2 therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church; 3 and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the Church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing; 4 which makes the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; 5 those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased." (6)

1 Romans 2:14,15; Romans 1:19,20; Psalm 19:1-3; Romans1:32; Romans 2:1. 

2 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:13,14 

3 Hebrews 1:1

4 Proverbs 22:19-21; Luke 1:3,4; Romans 15:4; Matthew 4:4,7,10; Isaiah 8:19,20

5 2 Timothy 3:15; 2 Peter 1:19

6 Hebrews 1:1,2

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