For those who do not necessarily subscribe to a belief in God, let's do some theorizing. If God really is the omnipotent, all-knowing, supremely intelligent and creative being that he is thought by some to be, then how in the heck would we as his handiwork have the capacity to understand him or his ways? It's expecting the shoe, or the dress or the cake to understand the complexities of it's human maker.
I'll bite. If we cannot create something that is able of comprehending us, that doesn't have to imply that God cannot create something that can comprehend his nature, on the contrary if God is all that(omnipotent, all-knowing, supremely intelligent and creative being) that necessarily implies that he is capable of creating such creatures (creatures capable of understanding him even on a rational level), so why doesn't he?
Is it because he can't or doesn't want to? If he can't than he is not omnipotent, all-knowing, supremely intelligent and creative being, if he doesn't want to: I could actually be convinced that it's because he wants people to have free will, but surely if he is all that he could find a way to make us that way that we'll understand his nature and have free will, and won't have to experience pain, suffering and other delights such as those in our existence to prove our faith, also isn't salvation and/or damnation predetermined,
so why would he need proof of our faith: we don't need proof to believe in God, but God needs proof of our faith: again conflicting with him being an omnipotent, all-knowing, supremely intelligent and creative being. (he wouldn't need a proof he would know)
I think the humbling truth of this is actually the largest reason for disbelief in God, because it's simply offensive to the egos of intellectual narcissists and uncomfortable to control freaks.
Humbling truth vs intellectual narcissists and control freak. (IMO there are other reasons that play a more significant part and are not quite so negative, but I'll digress if I go in that direction)
Is it humbling to think that believing in God makes us humble vs the intellectual narcissists and control freaks?
Isn't it a bit judgmental (not quite in the christian spirit) to simplify atheism as a cause of intellectual narcissism or need for control: to place their value on those traits of their character? Even if someone is intellectual narcissist or a control freak it still doesn't mean that they aren't a good person.
Let's say a person is a narcissist but his narcissism is one of the driving forces behind his actions (not the only one, no one has a single driving force behind his behavior) and that he wouldn't have achieved something that greatly benefits humanity, if that wasn't the case, on the contrary if he tried to be humble he probably wouldn't have been motivated enough. Does that make him a bad person?
Also someone may be a believer and act in accordance to God's laws all his life,(is constantly tested through suffering as well) and one of those narcissist or control freaks, or who knows even murderers, pedophiles, etc, let's just say someone that not only did not did good but hurt many people, who done some terrible things, decides he is a believer, ask forgiveness and he is saved, but wait did any of the things he did matter because again our salvation is predetermined?
Also that logic kinda seems similar to this logic:
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
One more thing:
expecting to understand or have proof of God is, at least in part, hilariously ridiculous.
Gotta say I appreciate it greatly when Christians are open to discuss their beliefs even when they are certain that you can't rationally prove the existence of God , in the end discussing Christianity(or theism in general) among agnostics/atheists it's a bit like non-smokers discussing the experience of smoking (don't mean anything bad by this analogy like implying Christianity is a bad habit lol, it's just the part about discussing an experience you didn't have from the outside and judging it solely by it's outward manifestations) *in this analogy I would be an ex smoker haha*