The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
Erwin W. LutzerPaul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.
Erwin W. Lutzer