Many religions have their principles, doctrines, creeds, and beliefs written down in a book such as the the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Few elevate their BOOK though as highly as do the Christians; which is not a book, but a library of books actually. So, think it not strange that each religion values it’s BOOK as something that is very UNIQUE to their religious traditions. Needless to say I am one of those. The Bible is not only sacred, it is UNIQUE, which does not mean that those 27 books of the Protestant New Testament are the ONLY books that reveal the beliefs of my Christian traditions, but they are the one’s that the fathers’ of our traditions saw fit to canonize. Were they deciding today, they might have though much like Martin Luther who doubted many of the NT books.
I think it more honest to say that the Bible is UNIQUE than INSPIRED!
Inspiring yes!
Leviticus doesn’t inspire me though. Jude and II Peter leave me under-excited. But, maybe that’s just me! 
As a body of work, covering so many issues, and particularly revealing the life of Jesus, the Christ, there is no comparison. How else would we know anything about Jesus were it not for the four Gospels? Tell me how? And just think what impact it has had. For starters, time is divided into BCE and CE that evolves around the life of Jesus. We don’t use 600CE or thereabouts (Mohammed) as a dating norm.
The Bible is far and away the best selling book in the world. Wildly so!
The Bible has been translated into more than 1,800 languages. I didn’t know there were that many! and the number of sales of various Bibles is in the tens of BILLIONS as a low number. No book has been more scrutinized, nor examined than the Bible.
Most importantly, the Bible is UNIQUE because of it’s subject matter: an historical man named Jesus who became the Christ, the second person of the Godhead!
R.P.C. Hanson put it this way, “The Bible has achieved its lofty status and held this incomparable place in the history of the church, not because it is an inspired oracle, not even because it was written, in order to be inspiring, but because it was chosen by the church to be a unique witness to the activity of God towards men in Christ.”
And then we have my second word- WITNESS!
Tomorrow.
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