The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read ItHarper Collins, 2014 M09 9 - 288 pages The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word. Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion, teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. But the further he studied the Bible, the more he found himself confronted by questions that could neither be answered within the rigid framework of his religious instruction or accepted among the conservative evangelical community. Rejecting the increasingly complicated intellectual games used by conservative Christians to “protect” the Bible, Enns was conflicted. Is this what God really requires? How could God’s plan for divine inspiration mean ignoring what is really written in the Bible? These questions eventually cost Enns his job—but they also opened a new spiritual path for him to follow. The Bible Tells Me So chronicles Enns’s spiritual odyssey, how he came to see beyond restrictive doctrine and learned to embrace God’s Word as it is actually written. As he explores questions progressive evangelical readers of Scripture commonly face yet fear voicing, Enns reveals that they are the very questions that God wants us to consider—the essence of our spiritual study. |
Contents
Chapter 2God Did What? | |
Chapter 3God Likes Stories | |
Chapter 4Why Doesnt God Make Up His Mind? | |
Chapter 5Jesus Is Bigger Than the Bible | |
Chapter 6No One Saw This Coming | |
Chapter 7The Bible Just as It | |
Where in the Bible Were We? In Order of Appearance | |
Some Dates I Keep Referring To And a Few Others | |
The Sin of Certainty | |
About the Publisher | |
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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It Peter Enns No preview available - 2015 |
The Bible Tells Me So...: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It Peter Enns No preview available - 2019 |
The Bible Tells Me So: Why defending Scripture has made us unable to read it Peter Enns No preview available - 2019 |