Romans 1 and Atheism?

[Della]

Ok to be honest “didn’t want to give up my cherished sins” and " suffering" doesn’t sound like an actual atheist, but more of a misotheist(“mad at God”).

You’re in good company. C. S. Lewis also came to this conclusion when he realized he wasn’t actually an atheist, but merely one who was angry with God. He said that he was angry with God for not existing.

If you ACTUALLY don’t believe in God, there couldn’t be anything to sin against, nor sins, now could there?

This is true. It’s like saying you couldn’t run into a brick wall if it didn’t exist. Since the brick wall exists, running into it again and again seems like an exercise in futility, doesn’t it?

And being upset about suffering implies that God is obligated to do things how we want him to; it also sounds like Joel O’Steen “prosperity gospel” when the Bible allows God to be sovereign.

Yes, God is not a slop machine from which we get what we want if we put in the right coinage. He’s immutable–he just is. Trying to get him to do what want just because we want it makes no sense when he has no reason, as a sovereign Person, to do anything we want. He gives us what we need out of love–because he knows what is best for us, his creation.

Not trying to say a ‘No True Scotsman’ though.