Given the fact that there are a whole bunch of other sacred texts we could be debating about, in addition to the Bible, this is just the beginning. There are lots more things we could argue about, believe me. There's the Book of Mormon, the Baghavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Buddhist writings, the Sikh writings, and so on, and so on, and so on. It's really endless. Oh yeah, and the Q'ran too. And then some more recent ones as well. Ever read Sri Aurobindo? No? I thought not. Very intellectual and impressive stuff, I can asssure you.

And here's the ticket: Whichever book or set of books YOU decided is "the ONE and ONLY Word of God" will depend entirely on this...where did you grow up? who did you listen to? whose word did you decide to trust on the matter? what were your cultural influences?

In other words, it's arbitrary.

Me, I think they just might all be the Word of God. I'm a bit radical, of course, and don't mind a ship that flies under multiple flags in the least. I see some good in all of them.