In my opinion, these are the top 10 reasons that atheists choose not to believe in God.

I could be wrong about it and exact reasons may vary based upon the individual, but I'm going to share what I believe anyway.

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#1: THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME

It is hard for man not be selfish. Everyone seems to pretty much have the default setting of putting themselves first. For us to put the unseen Creator first, that means there are a lot of selfish and sinful desires that we will no longer be able to fulfil. We may try to put ourselves first, spouses first, children first, other “gods” first, or any other thing that we may worship and believe to be important. Unfortunately, all that is considered to be sin.

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#2: THOU SHALT NOT MAKE THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE

Idolatry is also difficult for us to avoid. Even coming up with a false idea about who God is can be an idol. Whether these fake gods are crafted with our hands or our minds, they are not the real God, and therefore should not be created, for they do not exist. Idolatry is also sin.

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#3: THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN

These days, we are almost trained to blaspheme. Phrases like “O.M.G”, “God D*#%@t” and “Jesus Christ” are all used as curse words and exclamations of anger and frustration. Taking the name of the Creator or Savior and using it to express disgust or treating it like filthy vulgarity is sin. It is interesting to notice that no other name is used that way. Mohammed, Buddah, Allah, Joseph Smith and others are all left out. Only the name of Jesus is used that way. It is exactly what you would expect if there really was a Creator against Whom we had all sinned, there really was only one Savior named Jesus Christ, there really was a 3rd Commandment telling us not to use “the Lord’s” name in vain, and there really was a Devil trying to get people to rebel against God, reject Jesus, and perish in hell for all of eternity.

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#4: THOU SHALT WORK SIX DAYS A WEEK AND REST ONE

Taking a day off once a week to remember God and all that He has done for us is also too much for many people to handle. He blesses us with the other six days, and yet we want to keep the seventh day to serve ourselves too. That also is sin.

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#5: HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER

No clause is given here. We are to honor the parents that God has chosen for us. They may not always deserve it, but if we are honest, we probably screw up at least as much as they do. There is a certain lack of respect and honor these days, even for our own parents. That, my friends, is called sin.

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#6: THOU SHALT NOT MURDER

Okay, finally one that we can win at. Most of us have not murdered anyone, and hopefully we never will. Unfortunately, Jesus equated hatred with murder, because premeditated murder starts out as a thought, and Jesus does not want us to even think about it. If we can avoid hating anyone in our mind, we will never intentionally kill someone in reality. Both murder and hatred are sin.

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#7: THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY

Having sex with someone that you are not married to is sin, even if neither of you are married. Perhaps we may have never actually slept with someone else’s husband or wife, but again, Jesus takes it to another level. He says that if we look with lust, we’ve already done it in our minds. The same principle applies here as it did with hatred and murder. If we do not fantasize about having sex with someone that we are not married to, we will not actually sleep with them. Howsoever, to engage in unmarried intercourse, or to think those lustful thoughts about it, is sin.

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#8: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

Here is another great wrongdoing that somehow we all engage in. Maybe it was only something small like piece of candy or an answer off of someone else’s test, but it seems that we are all thieves. Just like you only need to commit one murder to be a murderer, you only need to steal one thing to become a thief. When we take something that is not ours, that’s called sin.

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#9: THOU SHALT NOT LIE

Again, we all seem to have this tendency, don’t we? Even when our conscience tells us that it is wrong, we will still go ahead and tell a lie. Time and time again another lie comes out, until even we begin to perceive that the lie is the truth. The devil is the father of lies, and Jesus is the truth. When we tell lies, we choose to sin.

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#10: THOU SHALT NOT COVET

Oh that deep down, greedy desire within all of us to want what is not ours. So many other sins stem from covetousness. Stealing, lying and adultery can all occur because of coveting. Even when we get all that we previously wanted, we find some new thing to covet. That’s also sin.

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In my opinion, those are the top ten reasons that atheists do not want to believe in God. If we were all created in the image of God and given consciences, and if He will one day judge us because of our sin, no man really wants to stand before Him guilty. Since we all know deep down inside that we have broken the Ten Commandments, we know that He will find us guilty and hold us accountable for our decisions and actions.

Remember, what we earn for our sin is death, both physical death and spiritual death.

I too have no desire to stand before God guilty on judgement day. I’ve broken the commandments and I know what I deserve for it. However, pretending that God does not exist does not help. If I speed past a parked police officer it will not help if I pretend that he is not there. The day will come when I will not be here, and God will still be there. It’s not a pleasant thought, but it is the truth.

I once thought that I was a “good person”. What a relative term that is. For the most part, we all think that we are good people, don’t we? However, when we look into the holiness of God as displayed in His Ten Commandments, we realize that maybe we aren’t so good after all. I think that this is why atheists are so adamant about getting rid of every verbal and visual reference to God, Jesus, and the Ten Commandments that they encounter. Those are just more reminders about their sin and guilt and the judgment day coming for us all. It’s kind of hard to pretend when you keep seeing evidence of the truth.

When I saw myself in the way that God saw me, as a guilty sinner who had chosen to reject His ways, I didn’t want to be in that situation either. Did I close my eyes and try to wish God away? No. I heard about His love for me. How that despite my evil deeds and sin against Him He was willing to forgive me. He sent His Son Jesus Christ to live a sin-free life so that He could die in my place.

You see, the wages of sin is death and God will by no means clear the guilty. However, since Jesus had no sins of His own to pay for, he could pay for ours. His death paid for our sins, if we will receive that.

When I heard that God had made the way for me to be found “not guilty” I embraced it. I said, “Yes Lord, I’ll take you up on that offer.” I put my faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and trusted that He had paid for my sin. I admitted and confessed my sins to God and received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. He died for me so now I will live for Him.

I had enslaved myself to many sins back then. I was a fiend and an addict, a drunkard, and a lying, thieving, wreck of an individual. Plus, I made a very destructive lifestyle look very inviting to others. A time came when I had all the encouragement that the world had to offer to stop my drug and alcohol dependency.

In the end, it wasn’t enough, and I couldn’t do it.

Then came Jesus!

What a difference God makes. He showed me that if drugs and alcohol were more important to me than He was, then He was not important enough to me. I told Him that if He wanted me different, He would have to change me, because I did not have that power. That was one of the best things that I ever did, because I am just about to complete my eighth year completely sober. Yeah, I know that a lot pf people think drugs are a lot of fun, but I think it’s is even more fun to not need drugs and alcohol to have a good time, or to have a bad time for that matter.

Of course, what He has done for me in this life pales to what He has done for my eternal soul.

What can He do for your life, or your eternal life?

He has a lot to offer, because He is there.

I’ll post more about all of this as we continue, but thanks for making it this far.

Stay tuned, today will be an exciting day!

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Thanks, @narrowminded