I Would Like to Know Your Favorite Bible Verse

It's more than just one verse, actually:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father." ~ John 1:15, 14

For me, the Incarnation – that the creative Word of God became flesh for our sakes in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, not in some mythical dream-time, but in a particular geographic location, and at a particular point in historic time – is the key doctrine of Christianity, and for me the most powerful and evocative. As English poet laureate Sir John Betjeman put it in his poem "Christmas":

[i]And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an ox's stall?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me?

And is it true? For if it is...

[b]No love that in a family dwells,
No caroling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare -
That God was Man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.[/b][/i]

I happen to believe that it is indeed true, as C.S. Lewis pointed out:

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

Your mileage may vary. ;-)