Q&A: What is the atheist's best argument against the God of the Bible?

Mike answers that the most effective atheist arguments are: (1) Sarcasm and misrepresentation of Christian truths — making God look unreasonable through half-truths and distortions. (2) The problem of evil — arguing that the existence of suffering is incompatible with a good God. Mike engages with this seriously: he notes that the problem of evil essentially says 'I feel the world is so bad that I won't trust God's claim that he is good and things will be better.' He also notes that some people respond to the problem of evil by concluding God must be evil — a position Mike considers logically untenable, since it would require the person to have moral standards higher than God's.