If you have read most of his other books, maybe pass. If you never read any of Enns, this book could be a good places to start. Each chapter is broken into short (usually just under 5 pages) writings on anecdotes or individual passages form the Bible. The last chapter is a mostly summary and concluding remarks. There are seven chapters – I’ll take door number three God did what?! God likes stories Why doesn’t God make up his mind? Jesus is bigger than the Bible No one saw this coming and The Bible, just as it is. The first chapter is autobiographical and touches on the subtitle of the book, but the following chapters mostly fit into the above outlines. For the most part you are getting some higher criticism, difficult passage in the Old Testament (as in, both things we just don’t like and unclear Hebrew), Jesus reinterpreting the Old Testament and changing the Law (because he is God), and Paul doing the same (in light of the resurrection). If you are familiar with Enns, there won’t be too much new here. This is one of his few books that is written entirely for popular audiences, and he uses a unique form/structure, so it bounces around some. In some ways it is a little difficult to summarize this book.
Level – Medium length, easy read (Enns is an academic, but writes for a popular audience) My Rating – If you are looking for something 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: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It 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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