Say we were in a bookstore, in the religious section and you were asked to advice somebody what book to get and you wanted them to buy a copy of the Bible, what you say to them to convince them of how great the Bible is?
Remember, you have to sell it on it's validity over these other religious texts. You are also factoring in their potential salvation which you are very serious about. Go!
I'm not really even a Christian, in the doctrinal and confessional sense, but will say that I consider the Jesus of the Bible my true north (thanks
@Lisa ), my lodestar, who has helped navigate my at times seriously wandering and cosmically lost bark, with whose help, and a blurry compass, I navigated some dark, in fact trecherous waters, and would recommend the Bible as what I rightly consider to be an absoutely living word, and have found that it is among the world's living scriptures which have, when one works on them, and reads them without hostility or rancor, the practically miraculous, uncanny ability and effect of working upon the reader in return, and that often for the better.
It's true that I sometimes, cat-like, use the scriptures to sharpen my claws, but just about the time I think I can discard them, some long-forgotten verse or verses I committed to memory come to me, in the darkest of my existential nights, and throw a supernatural light on the path I should have taken, or should be taking, and I return to at least a form of what I consider to be righteousness, which light, if I follow, leads me to a better, improved and ultimately peaceful place. For that, and them, I am therefore grateful.
Yes, I am a voracious reader of all of the world's sacred literature, and find much of value therein, but have never really found anything, even from the much-heralded and respected East and Far East, which says that, unlike achieving enlightenment, which is important, no doubt, one can actually have the ultimate Light, Jesus, within us and of us, if we get our egos out of the way and accept the Logos as our internal and external advisor, navigator, and, yes, savior. That, spiritually speaking, and though it can be easily misunderstod and lead to hyper-inflation instead of abnegation of the ego, is powerful stuff, and the gospels have stood on the strength of their spiritual merits for 2,000 years, and I hope they stand for as many more. They are, in other words, one of the roadmaps home, and are considerably better than anything written by Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking or Charles Darwin for the purpose, assuming one wants a way out rather than merely forward
. Sorry, in this case, for the run-on sentences. I should have subjected my writing to better editing.