The Word of God is the Power of God. And God gives us the spiritual birth through the Word of God. God's Word is able to make us wise for Salvation. Only the Word of God has a Creative and Transforming Power also Eternal in Nature.
With the Bible, is the vision that comes originally from the heart of God from Deuteronomy 17:19, "The Bible is to be with the leaders, and he or she is to read it all the days of his or her life so that they may learn to revere the LORD their God and follow carefully all the words..."