When some one asks me what my religious preference is
I tell them that I do not believe in religion, that I
believe in God and his word.
You may be surprised how many believers there is out
there that does not believe in religion because it is
of the devil.
Hebrews 10:25-26.
I have heard people say that, and I even understand why they say it, but I think that view is mistaken.
So that we have a common term for discussion, we use the term "religion" simply to describe a way of organizing belief and practice. Jews, Muslims, Zoroastrians, etc. have that. Christians have that too. We see the beginnings of the organization of Christian belief and practice in the New Testament itself, in the Acts of the Apostles and in the various Epistles. That is not to say there hasn't been corruption in Christianity. Sometimes the history of what some Christians have taught and done in the name of Christ is sickening. There is plenty of bad stuff out there today. But that fact that if you were asked, "What is your religion?" you would say you believe in God and His Word, and I would say I am an Orthodox Christian (which is also a believer in God and His Word), proves to me that all along the way over the past two thousand years, there have been good and faithful members of the Christian Church who have preserved the Gospel and kept the Bible available to us so that you and I can know and believe in God and His Word. That was and is God's work in them and through them, not the devil's. Not at all.