The Bible Tells Me So Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It [Paperback]

The controversial Bible scholar and author ofThe Evolution of Adamrecounts 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 Sochronicles 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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InThe Bible Tells Me So,Peter Enns addresses the problems of scripture form the position of an evangelical Christian who observes with candor and fresh humor that too often faithful readers approach the Bible with expectations it is not set up to meet.Peter Enns has written a great book about The Book. If youve ever struggled with the violent or contradictory or just plain strange passages in the Bible, this book is for you . . . And hes funny.Cross a stand-up comic, a robust theological mind, a college professol3-