When we have professing atheists we encounter, here are possible answers:
Maybe your friend needs to realize that what he thinks is good is done for self-glory, therefore it is not good. No one without God can do anything unselfishly. Also, it might be good to show him from the word that no one is good even if they think they are. Everyone has a high opinion of themselves. Just ask the criminals in jail. some of them would do good deeds for people and describe themselves as "basically good." It is not goodness that saves anyone, because no one is good.
Also, there is no such thing as a true atheist, they will be the first one to ask a Christian to pray for them when they get into trouble they can't get themselves out of. I had this happen to me, a professed atheist asked me to pray when a terrible thing happened to him.
The atheist isn't saying " I don't believe in God", even if they use those words. They are saying "I choose not to acknowledge Him as having any power over my life."
If I were to talk to your friend I would tell him that he says he doesn't believe in God, but he is lying, he knows he does. He can see the evidence of a creator all around him, he has no excuse. To deny God is not a belief, its a choice. God put it in all people that He exists, we know this by so many false religions in the world. They are choosing false gods made in their own image because inside they must explain they know there is a God.
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