Psalms 53:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
To say in the heart that there is no God is not merely a spoken opinion but a practical denial expressed in how one lives. It is to act as though there were no God, no heaven, and no future life, and as though one's possessions belonged to oneself alone with nothing owed to God or to others. The rich man exemplifies this fool, because he plans only for himself and treats his prosperity as proof of his own wisdom and good judgment. Such denial is foolish because God's power and glory are so clearly revealed in the works of creation that His existence needs no proof from man, and human suppositions to the contrary only darken counsel.
Denying God is folly and self-deception. Atheism has no power to restrain crime, to quicken the higher energies, to elevate or purify the soul, or to shed light into the grave. Those who think they have banished all thought of God are undeceived when brought face to face with death, confessing that a lifetime of boasts was a delusion. No dying Christian ever testifies that he was deceived and that there is no God and no reality in Christ, while many who gloried in unbelief abandon it before death and admit with horror that there is a God with reward for the faithful and punishment for the wicked and that they must meet the doom of the lost.