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The appropriate response isn't as straightforward as we may get a kick out of the chance to think. The Bible itself is neither completely positive nor altogether negative about religion. All things considered, at the most essential dimension, a religion is a lot of profoundly held individual or institutional convictions or standards. There's nothing amiss with that, all by itself. Indeed, by that definition, each person on earth is profoundly religious.
Yet, the issue isn't whether we have profoundly held convictions and practices—the issue is to whom those convictions are committed. To all the more likely get this present, we should go to the book of Romans in the Bible.
A touch of setting: the Apostle Paul opens this letter by sharing how he continually offers gratitude to God that the gospel is grinding away in the lives of the Christians in Rome. He needs to visit them and to reinforce their confidence; truth be told, he says he is anxious to proceed to lecture the gospel to them.4 He isn't embarrassed about the gospel, he lets them know, "since it is the intensity of God that carries salvation to everybody who believes."5
Unmistakably Paul is energetic about the gospel, which leads him to compose the most comprehensive religious treatise on crafted by Christ found anyplace in the Bible. Also, he starts with the terrible news about mankind:
The fierceness of God is being uncovered from paradise against all the atheism and devilishness of individuals, who stifle reality by their mischievousness, since what might be thought about God is plain to them, since God has made it plain to them. For since the formation of the world God's undetectable characteristics—his everlasting force and celestial nature—have been obviously observed, being comprehended from what has been made, so individuals are without reason. For in spite of the fact that they knew God, they neither celebrated him as God nor expressed appreciation to him, however their reasoning wound up useless and their absurd hearts were obscured. Despite the fact that they professed to be insightful, they progressed toward becoming simpletons and traded the brilliance of the godlike God for pictures made to resemble a human individual and flying creatures and creatures and reptiles. Subsequently God gave them over in the evil wants of their souls to sexual pollution for the debasing of their bodies with each other. They traded reality about God for a falsehood, and loved and served made things as opposed to the Creator—who is always lauded. Amen.6
In these stanzas, Paul gives us a look at the establishment of religion. What's more, what he says is this: In all the world, in a general sense there are just two sorts of religions—genuine and false. One God adores and the other he loathes. How about we unload that a bit.
All individuals—regardless of whether they recognize God—know there is a God, Paul says. How? Since he has uncovered himself in his creation, in "what has been made."7 If God has uncovered himself in creation—in the event that he can really be known through the magnificence and intricacy of the earth—at that point, as indicated by Paul, he should be given all the credit. When we witness the startling force and excellence of a tempest, when we remain at the foot of a mountain and afterward look over a valley from that equivalent mountain's pinnacle, when we feel the crush of an infant's hand on our finger out of the blue . . . these encounters should make us stop and express appreciation to the God who made them all conceivable.
But then we realize this isn't generally the situation.
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