The Bible Tells Me So
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The Bible Tells Me So

Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Bible Tells Me So

Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Concerning the Bible . . .
  3. Contents
  4. Author’s Note
  5. Chapter 1—I’ll Take Door Number Three
  6. Chapter 2—God Did what?!
  7. Chapter 3—God Likes Stories
  8. Chapter 4—Why Doesn’t God Make Up His Mind?
  9. Chapter 5—Jesus Is Bigger Than the Bible
  10. Chapter 6—No One Saw This Coming
  11. Chapter 7—The Bible, Just as It Is
  12. Where in the Bible Were We? (In Order of Appearance)
  13. Some Dates I Keep Referring To (And a Few Others)
  14. In Case You Don’t Believe Me and Want to Read More
  15. New from Peter Enns: The Sin of Certainty
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Copyright
  18. About the Publisher