Why: The Bible

In a world full of religious scriptures why choose the Bible?

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1. Why: The Bible
2. 1.Why Am I Here? 2.Why: God? 3. Why: The Bible? 4.Why: Church? 5.Why: Sabbath? 6.Why: Hope?
3. Psalm 19:1-3 ✤ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
5. Romans 1:20 ✤ 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
8. Romans 2:14 ✤ 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.
9. Romans 2:15 ✤ 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)
12. Hebrews 1:1-2 ✤ In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
14. Confucius ✤“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
15. Mohammed ✤“Allah does not look at your bodies nor your forms but He looks at your hearts and your actions.”
16. Gautama Buddha ✤“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
17. The question is not whether they have light but quality and brilliance of the light they reveal.
23. John 1:1-3 & 14
24. John 8:12 ✤ Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
25. John 14:6 ✤ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
26. John 5:39-40
27. The difference in the books is not just what they teach but who they reveal.
28. Hebrews 4:12 ✤ 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
29. Hebrews 4:12 ✤ piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
32. John 3:19-21 ✤ 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light
33. John 3:19-21 ✤ and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
34. The Bible reveals the clearest picture of God and myself in the person of Jesus.