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Scripture itself claims to be God's breathed word and that it holds power to change hearts.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
People have been saved by reading scripture alone.
Now either it is all true or none of it is since God wouldn't put his name on half truths.
Then there is the matter of Jesus himself, either he is God or he isn't. Other religions often say that Jesus was just a great teacher, but Jesus never claimed that, he claimed in a variety of ways that he actually was God come in the flesh.
When Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” The Jews who heard Him took up stones and said that he was blaspheming and that “You, a mere man, claim to be God”
There were other occasions like when he said “Very truly I tell you, . . . before Abraham was born, I am!” Only God called himself the "I am" as a title.
Exodus 3:14
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
Every word from it is the word of God, that is what scripture itself claims.
The same way it proclaims that Jesus is God come in the flesh.
We don't pray to scripture, we pray to God.
There is no person called "Scripture". And only persons can make claims.
The apostle Paul claims it to be God-breathed.
What does it practically mean differs between various theologies and between individual Christians.
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