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When Christians talk about “rejecting God”, we are not talking about failing to believe in a book. Romans 1 says people “suppress the truth in unrighteousness”. In other words, God’s reality and moral law are written into creation and into the human conscience, but people choose to push that down because they want life on their own terms. Romans 2 adds that even those without the written Law “show that the work of the law is written on their hearts”. Our own conscience testifies that we fall short. So rejection is not about a piece of paper. It is the heart refusing the God it already knows at some level, choosing independence rather than worship, obedience, and gratitude. Paul’s conclusion is that “there is none righteous, no, not one”. We all do this by nature. The Christian message is that God doesn’t leave us there. Even though all have rejected Him in that Romans 1 and 2 sense, He offers mercy and life in Christ to anyone who turns to Him.