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we are faced with non-being, the question must be asked, from where does non-being emerge? We have a ground of being or essence that we experience as our reality. We have the ability to conceive of our finitude in an infinite universe. However, philosophically, our conceptions depend on our existence or our ground of being. Therefore, non-being is a dependent concept of being. Man can't not be and declare that man is. Similarly, atheism is a dependent concept of theism. You have to acknowledge God to declare that there is not One.

This would mean that the opposite of theism is not atheism. A good analogy is that the opposite of love is not hate. One has to consider love or care enough to hate. The opposite of love is indifference. The opposite of theism would be agnosticism. The only difference in the analogy would be that agnostics do care about theism but they experience a lack of faith and declare that they do not know. They don't deny God but they don't leap into theism or atheism either. One might argue that the atheist lacks faith as well however, this is not entirely true.

The faith of an atheist is the faith that there is no God. The atheist can't disprove the existence of God in the absolute sense but declares that there is not one based on personal experience and philosophical opinion. This is faith in a supposition that there is no God. The patterns of belief between atheists and theists are nearly identical. Both claim there is a moral high ground of being and have established standards for correct human behavior. Both rely on faith. Both have diverged in dogma over time. There is evidence of a lack of humanity both in the perceived presence of God and the perceived lack of God's presence. This means that God is not the problem and humans are. The basis of God's existence can't rest with humanity. The Bible does a phenomenal job of explaining this. It is the point.

Many theologians and religious practitioners have recently stated that theism and atheism or religion and atheism are two sides of the same coin. Some even go as far as stating that there is no such human as a true atheist based on some of the arguments made in this article. I am not sure that this position is wholly sustainable. I do believe that the imperfection of this world is based on our individualism that was created by God. One can call it free will or the human psyche. Our perception of the imperfection of this world is the perfection that God created. Otherwise,

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