God is, by most Atheists, not excluded as a possibility, at all. We just find that possibility terribly small, very improbable; so we first look at the better alternative. You must have heard this before, but it would be unscientific to say there definitely is no God, same as it would be unscientific there are no fairies or flying teapots. Practically everyone in the world is pretty sure fairies do not exist, and if they would have read Russel's hypothesis, they would think the same of the teapot. But God, is not different - apart from that God has so many people 'believing' in him. There is just as little evidence for God, as there is for the lack of fairies or flying teapots.
So don't say we disregard the possibility of God, we only find it too improbable to be worth the money and effort normally put into ground-breaking theories (of science).
If you say you are 'experiencing' God as part of your consciousness, I would call that Faith, especially since you're doing something with it.
And you're not alone, you're a Deist, if you really don't do religion. But if you've figured all this out yourself, how come you use Bible verses and are so blatantly Abrahamic? - be the latter with some distortion.
Fair enough, you reason well here, I respect that. But I do not believe that Atheist do not disreguard the possible existance of God.
You ask why I use the bible, because I agree with it. Its soundness, its wisdom, its uncanny way of describing human nature.I see how human nature is so perverted in so many, so lost, so confused. Eccle. 7:13 explains to me why. Who is able to straighten what God has bent? Thats whats wrong with humanity, its creator has subjected them to carnal tendency, literally locked us into confusion, and we, of ourselves, cannot get out of it. Romans 11:32 explians further to me that God has shut up ALL into this strange behavior we call human nature, only so that one day he will free us from it.
This perfectly explains to me whats really going on with humanity, our endless confusion. And God wants this for now. He wants the confusion, the suffering, because you know, with his gift of eternal life, we will always remember what it was like to be human and without him. Its a curse to be without God, and we all are suffering because he has not revealed himself. Such a gift as living forever, the things we go through now are meaningless as compared to living forever in Peace and Joy with our true roots. But such a thing is unbelievable, we just can't get to that type of thing as being true.
But it makes sense to me. More than happenstance human existance, evolving from nothing, there is more to this than we know. I have taken hold to that hope, but beyond that, I have reasoned that God did all this, and science has proven that to me. Its been centuries of science, and they still cannot explain how we got here in a manner that even the totality of scientist can agree on.
How long will we deny our roots, its been staring us in the face for all these historical centurys. Yet we seek out other alternitives, in ignorance we look for something " Other Than God." I have considered many things, and all of my considerations point to God. Addiction to me is proof of God. God created consciousness and gave it life within itself. That life, without Gods guidance, has the ability to addict itself to ANYTHING! Without the guidance of the parent, the child will grab hold of anything on its own.
God knew this all too well when he placed us into an environment of confusion. He is teaching an eternal lesson to humanity, and such is his price for his matchless gift of eternity, we will be always convinced of his superioity, his Goodness, we, like no other creation of God, will have experienced for ourselves what Life, Consciousness, addiction to weak frail flesh which is devoid of God, can be like. Its horrible and degrading. I think this is what God is doing, moreover I hope its what he is doing, I am just not sure enough. But I suspect this to be so.
Although I do not know God, he has continually shown me why I am, as I am. And there is no escape to being how I am, he needed no other examples than me to myself. And I read these bible verses and they perfectly explain to me this prison of the earth. Yes, thats right, the earth is a prision, a giant incubator which holds the babies in wait. We grow but we do not grow. We think but we are not conscious of the spirit world of God. We walk around in the dark and believe we think for ourselves. Addicted to our own consciousness.
Peace.