Man has a free will, that gives him choice!

That is easy! Man wants to have power over all and think of themselves as gods. They don't want to feel below anything. That does not change the truth though. We have all come short of the glory of God.

Whats the difference?

Because some of us do not believe the Bible to be the work of any God. At all.

Mankind's word is all that actually exists.

Why is this question only for christians?

Because "god" is a self-serving, murderous, spoiled little GIT that needs his butt TANNED!

man is more realstic that something that was written by men thousands of years ago,l choose to belive scince over a book

Unbelievers are selfish!

First of all, there is no such thing as a "non-believer in Christ."

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Trusting in the word of man depends on who is guiding his soul. If your heart is with and in God, man's deceit shines through clearly. Something good to live by when it comes to mankind: Believe only half of what you see, and none of what you hear.

Truth is available, but it is not in any one person, denomination, or group, but only in the one who said 'I am the way, the truth, the life' Christ Jesus. Make it your goal to follow Him and His leading first, being determined to believe whatever He will show you, regardless of the cost, or the scorn and ridicule it may bring from others. Then and only then can you be sure you are in the true faith.

Different Religious Organizations have to maintain a congregation or they basically go out of business. In order to do this they must control what you hear and what you see they control what you read out of the Bible. And people blindly go to these churches every week in order to belong to a community. They have not a clue that they are listening to some man's filtered version of the truth. A good example was Jim Jones and his religous commune in Guyana. And you see what happened to those people.

Well, I am a Christian. I think that people, sadly, don't want to believe in something they have never seen.

God must exist because the bible says so? Isn't that begging the question?

This may give you a clue. http://alexpetrov.com/memes/s...

Because the word of the bible is also the word of men.

Some of us, even very religious folks like your Captain, do not believe the Bible to be the word of God. Humans are severely flawed as a "thinking" species. Maybe after the next step in evolution things will be better.

The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit. Only the children of God can get hold of it.

Hi Crusader.

If you don't beleive that any gods are real, then this question doesn't really make sense. You don't believe in Islam or Hinduism, so you can relate to what I'm saying. What the Koran and the Upanishads are to you, so the Bible is to non-Christians.

"Man" in the plural is lots of things. Self-serving, self-deceiving, and self-worshipping. But also dedicated to helping others, dedicated to learning and truth, and dedicated to humility. We all have the power to pick which attributes we will attempt to persue and personify. No?