the bible tells me so: why defending scripture has made us unable to read it peter enns

It's an invitation to a deeper faith.'Ĭhristians have had it drilled into them that their job is to defend the Bible against any challenge. The Bible's raw messiness isn't a problem to be solved.

Creating a Bible that behaves itself doesn't support the spiritual journey it cripples it. A Bible like that isn't a sure foundation of faith it's a barrier to true faith. It's actually a thinly masked fear of losing control and certainly, a mirror of our inner disquiet, a warning signal of a deep distrust in God. Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it's not meant to be, isn't a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. 'What if God is actually fine with the Bible just as it is? Not the well-behaved version we create, but the messy, troubling, weird, and ancient Bible has something to show us about our own sacred journey of faith. In The Bible Tells Me So, he provides a revolutionary new perspective: In fact, argues Bible scholar Peter Enns, we have become so busy protecting the Bible that we are now unable to read it. Christians have been defending scripture from attack for two centuries.

The bible tells me so: why defending scripture has made us unable to read it peter enns