The Bible, Powerfullest Book EVER!

One thing's for sure about the Bible: it's old. You can be pretty sure its authors are not trying to trick you or scam you. Granted, they could have been trying to scam somebody thousands of years ago, but whatever their agenda, be it political or personal, you can rest assured that it doesn't apply to you, and besides, it would probably be lost on you anyway.

God can speak to you through any means he chooses; why would he speak through an ancient book translated by human beings and printed on an ordinary man-made machine? Well, I say he does speak through other means, but it's hard to filter him out from all the other noise in our world. The Bible at least remains relatively constant; even the translations have hardly changed in the last 400 years or so (since King James). That amount of time tends to filter out the ulterior motives of unscrupulous individuals.

Today we have the New International Version, which is certainly more comprehensible, but the language is strikingly similar to the King James Version when you put them side by side. This translation is done by a committee of scholars, which in my mind makes it more accurate, so I find the NIV translation most trustworthy.

The Bible doesn't have to be the word of God in your mind for you to acknowledge that the ideas it contains are powerful--just look at its legacy--but it's all the more powerful if you're actually perceiving the voice of God communicating with you through those words. That's the whole deal with the Bible, really. Once you start thinking that maybe God really is behind the Bible, even just for the most part, its power starts to really come through, and it's hard to deny. Without that thought, it's still easy to see the results of its power, but you can't really taste it.