reject God

The Church teaches that no one is condemned to hell without having freely decided to reject God.

Finally, he rejects God, who is apparently unable to remedy the questions and afflictions of the human condition.

But he is not satisfied with the alternative that makes eternal destiny simply a matter of the individual's own choice of whether to reject God.

"How can you reject God and reverence the crucifix?"

I rejected God, along with a lot of what my father tried to beat into me, but I never dropped that one habit.

They reject God with the same passion and intensity that others use to embrace Him.

When an individual rejects the teachings of Jesus, they are in fact rejecting God.

If a child's sense of right and wrong is based on religion, what happens if they later reject God?

And in a lot of ways, rejecting God's very existence would be an intensely logical reaction once the truth finally comes out.

So, as the passage says, if someone rejects this teaching, and reworks it to fit their desires, then they are rejecting God.