Atheism
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
12:29 PM
Greek word - Without God
A= without
Theos=God
Used 1 time in the NT
Ephesians 2:12 (NIV) 
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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The Old & New Testament begin with God's reality not left up to speculative premise. If gthe normal human state includes a God knowledge (Romans 1:20) then atheism would be considered abnormal.
Hebrew has no equivalent word for "without God."
Greeks used Atheos in 3 ways.
1) impious or godless
2) without supernatural help
3) not believing any god

20TH CENTURY ATHEISM differs from 1st century atheos.
1) Claims to be the consequence of a rational system without need of God.
2) Earlier atheists were thought to be vulgar and depraved, while today many serve in prestige and depict theists as obscurantists.
"Objections have been raised to atheism in its theoretical form. (1) It is against reason; existence of something rather than nothing requires God. (2) It is contrary to human experience; some knowledge of God, no matter how suppressed and distorted, has universally existed. (3) Atheism cannot account for design, order, and regularity. (4) It cannot explain the existence of humans and mind."
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