Imperishable Inheritance

The doctrine of Scripture is such a vital point of any religion. Without the authority of some means of Scripture then they have nothing to point to in saying that "God said this..." In the amount of Scriptures I have read: The Book of Mormon, Qur'an, Bhagavata, Tao Te Ching, and so on all prove to have no life in them; and it has led me to the pursuit of God's true Word.

Of all the Scriptures I've read I am consistently more and more convinced that the Christian Scriptures are the true, authoritative source of knowledge. I believe that we must recognize that there is truth outside of the Bible, but the Bible serves as our ultimate source of authority, and recognizing that truth exists outside of the Bible does not violate Sola Scriptura as John Frame elaborates:

'Sola Scriptura, after all, does not require the exclusion of all extrabiblical data, even from theology. It simply requires that in theology and in all other disciplines, the highest authority, the supreme standard, be Scripture and Scripture alone.'
John Frame, Apologetics to the Glory of God (pg. 18)

Until recently I've never been convinced by arguments of the sufficiency of the Scriptures by rhetoric that follows that line of argumentation, "the Bible speaks to me differently than anything else." I had closed off my feeling of the Bible for the sake of knowledge. Wayne Grudem in his Systematic Theology gives this line of argumentation in his chapter on the doctrine of Scripture.

It is one thing to affirm that the Bible claims to be the words of God. It is another thing to be convinced that those claims are true. Our ultimate conviction that the words of the Bible are God's words comes only when the Holy Spirit speaks in and through the words of the Bible to our hearts and gives us an inner assurance that these are the words of our Creator speaking to us.
Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology (pg. 77)

Paul talks in 1 Corinthians about the necessity of the Holy Spirit to illuminate spiritual truths and how the natural man will not accept spiritual truths.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
1 Corinthians 2:12-14

This is a writing of appreciation for (1) the Spirit which leads us in discovering truth and maintaining our perseverance and (2) the preservation of God's Word so that we may have the words of our Creator Himself. They illuminate and give life to a dead spirit. I'm not sure of much, but I'm sure that when someone reads the Bible eagerly seeking to know what it says it will change your life.

As a final point this is why we need to support programs like Wycliffe's Vision 2025 which strives to have God's Word available in every language by 2025. The Great Commission can never be finished without this task being completed. There are still 380 million people without any of God's Word.