I teach the Bible because I want to help others meet God, too. I love the Bible, because I meet God in its pages. I am a Christian, and the Bible has shaped and continues to shape my life and my faith. It remains the main way for Christians today to learn about God, the go-to sourcebook for spiritual comfort, guidance, and insight.Ĭount me among them. Christians have been reading it ever since there have been Christians. It’s been around in one form or another for twenty-five hundred years or so, and, by anyone’s standards, it’s had quite a run.įrom its murky beginnings as ancient stories and poems written by obscure peoples living along the eastern Mediterranean coast in a plot of land the size of New Jersey, it became a worldwide sacred and revered text, the Holy Bible, the Word of God, read in hundreds of languages and dialects, the number one bestselling book of all time, with billions of copies sold and a hundred million more sold each year. 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 or accepted among the conservative evangelical community. Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion, teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. 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.
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