Dimensions
163 x 235 x 25mm
Does loving someone mean that you have to deny that they have any flaws, or deny that they ever contradict themselves, or even deny the possibility of them having flaws or contradictions? That was the dilemma Peter Enns faced.
Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Enns loved the Bible. He landed a job teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary, but as he continued to study the Bible, questions surfaced that couldn't easily be answered given the rules for how to read the Bible he had been taught. Just asking the questions made people nervous. In fact, asking these questions helped get him fired from his job, but it also opened up a way where he could both love the Bible as God's Word and read what is actually in it. Enns decided to reject the increasingly complicated and contradictory intellectual games conservative Christians play in order, they claim, to "protect" the Bible. Is that what God really requires? How could this be God's plan for divine inspiration if the result meant not being able to see what is really written in its pages?
The Bible Tells Me So recounts Enns's personal journey of how he threw off the distorting lens he received from others and how he learned to deal with and embrace God's Word as was actually written. Enns deals with the issues all thoughtful readers of Scripture have but are afraid to give voice to and reveals that these are the very questions God wants us to wrestle with.
