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Christian Atheism and Fools

Many Christians use Psalm 14:1 to indicate what God says about atheists. The word for fool is × ָבָל, nabal, which essentially means a vile person. Although many professing atheists display a profound lack of reasoning ability, nabal does not indicate lack of intelligence, but moral failing. But you knew that.


While the Bible tells us that atheists are fools, we can also see that Christians can essentially be fools when we pretend there is no God. Phil Johnson explains.

There is a big problem with Christians who act like God does not exist. We can effectively be atheists by saying in our hearts that there is no God; Christians can be fools. Phil Johnson has an excellent sermon about this called "Atheism in our Hearts". I hope you will download it (there's an arrow down at the far right of the thing below) or listen online.