It compels us to develop wisdom and trust in God and engage in conversation and debate with each other about what He is like. Enns powerfully makes the case through myriad examples that demonstrate his thesis that the Bible itself tells us how to read it in all its diverse perspectives, contradictory viewpoints, and historical inaccuracies. Enns' sincere reverence and respect for the Bible and for God is clear all throughout, which is refreshing for those like me who were skeptical going into it. 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. 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. 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. Rejecting the increasingly complicated intellectual games used by conservative Christians to "protect" the Bible, Enns was conflicted. 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 nor be accepted among the conservative evangelical community.
Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion by teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary.
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