It's true people can be rich, strong, influential, successful without God. People do good things without God, can be nice without God, and giving without God. Humanity as a whole can be a lot of things. I have found in my observation that everyone has a breaking point though. A point where they look up to the sky and shake their fist at Him or bow a knee and surrender. In that moment, there is an acknowledgement that there is a God. That we alone are not in complete control of our lives. In that moment the atheist will choose to stop believing in Him or someone will embrace faith and believe.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11.1). If you don't believe in God, you will never see Him. Jesus told Thomas that those who believed without seeing would be
blessed (John 20:29). People ask for a sign all the time, sometimes God gives that sign. In my own personal experience it doesn't happen if I don't believe. If my motives are a desire for proof before belief than most of the time, I get nothing.
God has proved His existence for thousands of years. He doesn't have to keep on proving Himself. The ball is in our court. Do we choose to believe in a God who created the world, sent His Son, or not. Do we choose to live life with hope for eternity or live life hopelessly striving for nothing. Can anyone prove there is nothing after death? I think not. I'd rather take a chance and believe that there is and live my life to that end. The alternative is a scary thought. Eternity disconnected from my Creator. Disconnected from truth and life.
About 10 years ago, I was at work and a bunch of coworkers were discussing the release of the movie "The Passion of the Christ." I wept through the entire movie. As we were discussing the film one of my coworkers was talking about how good the movie was and was pretty overwhelmed by it. Towards the end of the conversation she made a comment that will always stick with me. Let me preface this by saying she wasn't a religious person or a believer. She said if all that the Bible says is true and that movie was correct, then we are all screwed (she used an expletive). The power of the truth in that moment hit her and she realized that there was a very clear choice to be made. To believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God and that everything He said and did was true or to take the chance that it wasn't.
I know that being a Christian is hard. I know that it seems like there are lots of rules and regulations. Honestly there is really only one thing.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son that whoever BELIEVES in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
