Color me confused, but “the Bible... saves the sinner”? When you say "the Bible" are you referring to the canon or do you mean the word of God? Paul says that it is the word of God which:
from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (II Timothy 3:15)
From the article:
The law of the Lord, Scripture, is sufficient to totally transform the whole inner person. Powerful statement...powerful, powerful statement. It’s able to save. It’s able to regenerate. It’s able to convert. It’s able to transform. And that gets repeated all through Scripture. The sacred Scripture, 2 Timothy 3:15, the Scripture, the sacred writings, able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation. It is able to convert you. It is sharper than any two-edged sword, Hebrews 4:12 and 13, and it can cut you wide open and unbare your sin. And then it can regenerate and redeem and restore you. The Scripture then is utterly sufficient for the conversion, transformation, restoration, spiritual birth of the soul. Peter puts it this way, 1 Peter 1:23, “Being born again not of corruptible seed but by incorruptible by the Word of God.” We are regenerated, born again, given life by the Word of God which lives and abides forever. And this is the Word by which the gospel is preached to you. That’s why Paul says in Romans 1, “Not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, it is the power of God unto salvation.” It gives life. It’s powerful. It gives life.
Paul says in I Corinthians 1:18, For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. In verse 21, he continues, For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. It is the spoken word of the Gospel that leads us to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. The gospel that sacred Scripture continues to teach.
Does that help?