Atheists deny the existence of God, and yet the existence of God is proven through the five ways of St Thomas Aquinas. According to Thomas Aquinas, God is being and the universal cause of being. God is then the cause of being of all atheists, whilst atheists deny the existence of God as the cause of their own being. The divine preservation of atheists is a secret hidden in plain sight from atheists. For atheists know the existence of any creature is a brute fact, which cannot be accounted for when God's existence and universal causation is denied. Yet atheists continue in unbelief in the existence of God as the only cause that can properly account for their ongoing existence from one moment to the next moment.
Atheists are aware of the problem of existence, and are aware of the solution to the same problem, but do not give consent to the solution in God who causes all being. Atheists are then aware of a secret within the universe, which has been revealed to them, but which they cannot resolve. The secret is the mystery of existence without sufficient account given, whilst denying the only proper account of existence in God. Atheism is then at least in part, a modern triple mystery (secret revealed but never fully understood) -
1) The entire universe is unaccounted for within atheism. Therefore within atheism, the universe exists without sufficient reason.
2) As there is no proof for atheism, God as the only solution to the problem of the unaccounted for existence of creatures is denied without sufficient reason within atheism. Therefore atheism exists without sufficient reason.
3) God out of divine love keeps atheists in existence, who are sinning against him as through unbelief, whilst God has no need for atheists at all.
The above three points are all mysteries associated with atheism. For all are known in part but never fully understood.
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