This is the Day.

In order to be a Christian, you have to believe what the Bible says is literal. Accepting only what you want to accept of the Bible is the reason that the world has so many problems. You need to accept the Word of God as the final authority in your life. Not that Christians are always able to live up to every word, but that's where the forgiveness of God comes in, he will forgive us and still accept us. Hey, to me God is as real as anything or anyone!
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 The same was in the beginning with God.3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
The reason that God is not real to so many people, is that they won't accept Him at His Word. People accept the theory of evolution, at the word of two or three men. The principle of gravity because they can see it. Religious thought at the prompting of the writings of one man. Weight loss solutions upon the details given by a book. Financial advice based on the renderings of often crooked people. Health solutions on research that can and does prove faulty almost as often as it is proven correct. People even accepted that a compay had made an "unsinkable" boat, Titanic vs. Iceburg (iceburg TKO). They even accept that there could be life on other planets, which is totally unsubstansiated. Yet, when the Creator of the universe, the Fashioner of mankind, the only true God, gives them a plan for living that will work, writes a love letter containing 66 books to mankind, sends a Savior to die for there sin, and makes accepting Him something that is not hard to do. Men reject this with all the ferver of a Norway lemming migration. Man scoffs and says this will never work. He throws up his hands in an attitude of mockery, and says, "that's imposible." Why can mankind accept so may false programs, so many unproven "facts," run headlong into so many schemes, and yet think that somehow God is trying to trick him. Its because he/she doesn't really want to believe that the life he/she is living might actually be wrong, might not be the best way, and might actually be contributing to his/her destruction. Still, "let's try this new pill (that ends up being recalled because it has deadly side effects)," but "don't try to tell me that God loves me, because that just can't be." Well, the choice is yours, that's the way God works, but there is a better way!