My Bible is alive. It is the Word of God. Even one verse has the power to change lives. God gave me free will and told me to study his word. No man is perfect.
Your Bible isn't alive until it's brought alive by accurate TEACHING. Until then it's just a book that most people cannot understand accept for its historical teachings. Do you realize that for the first 400 years of Christianity there was no New Testament Bible? What kept those early Christians 'fed' was word of mouth, not a book that they read and personally interpreted. They were taught by their priests and bishops, who were taught by their priests and bishops, all the way back to Christ and the Apostles, who were commanded by Christ to "go and TEACH all things whatsover I have taught you". He didn't tell them to write a book and spread it around.
Christianity is a religion of teaching, it is not a religion of book stores. Christ wrote nothing, the Apostles wrote nothing. And that teaching must be as interpreted by the only authority that was given the understanding of the Scriptures by the Holy Spirit, the first and only Christian Church, the Roman Catholic Church and those ancient Eastern Rites who give the Pope full authority over them. Everyone else is fooling themselves because of their rebellion against authority. How easy it is to read the Bible and interpret it as you want to. That isn't faith in anything external, it's faith in yourself.