Some things exist only because we believe that they exist. For example, our economy is based on the belief that our money is worth something. There is not enough gold and silver in the world to back the amount of money that our treasury puts out, but we still continue to believe that a dollar is worth something more than the paper that it's printed on. If we stop believing in the value of our dollar, then our entire economic system will collapse.
On the other hand, there are things that exist regardless of whether you believe in them or not. They are absolutes. Gravity, for example, would continue to hold you to the earth regardless of whether you believed in it or not. As a matter of fact, no one even knew what gravity was until the 1680s. That didn't keep it from working before then even though no one believed in it.
God is like gravity. He'll be there regardless of whether we believe or not, and that testifies to the glory of God. The temptation of some, though, is to take this line of reasoning and skew it a little. They would say that when someone lacks faith then that increases God's glory when God is finally revealed to be true, so disbelief is actually just as good as real belief if not better. I've even heard some say that Satan is not really evil because He exists so that God can be seen as good. Without the contrast, they say, we wouldn't be able to recognize good and evil, so they are really both good in a sense.
What a convoluted, crazy way to view the world! We are already sinners. We are already condemned to death. Why in the world would want to forsake forgiveness in a vain attempt to do more evil so that God can be glorified. God is glorified regardless. Choose Him. Our faith in Christ is the only way that we can truly do any good at all.
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