by Pete Enns | May 15, 2017 | Bible and science, nature of the Bible
As someone who stands on God’s Word as the only sure guide to faith and life, I would like to make the following courageous observation: meteorologists daily launch an insidious attack upon the Word of God by claiming that snow, rain, hail, and lightening are...
by Pete Enns | Apr 14, 2017 | Bible and science, Fundamentalism, nature of the Bible
“Apparent age” means that God created the cosmos to look billions of years old when in fact it is only a few 1000 years old. This is seen by some* as a solution to why the earth looks so old when the Bible says it is so young. “Apparent age” has the convenient benefit...
by Pete Enns | Sep 28, 2016 | Bible and science, The Bible Tells Me So, Uncategorized
In The Bible Tells Me So, I have a section called “Stories Work,” which is my conclusion to chapter 3, “God Likes Stories.” My point there is that the writers of the biblical narratives were storytellers. They recalled the past “often the...
by Pete Enns | Aug 23, 2016 | Bible and science, Old Testament, Uncategorized
There’s been quite a lot of kerfuffle online this summer in the wild and wacky, never boring, but yet always so, world of reading the Bible far, far, too literally. I should put in my two cents—be ready for a shock—that I don’t think much of the recent construction of...
by Pete Enns | Jul 13, 2016 | Bible and science, Christianity and evolution, Fundamentalism, nature of the Bible, Uncategorized
“Apparent age” means that God created the cosmos to look billions of years old when in fact it is only a few 1000 years old. This is seen by some* as a solution to why the earth looks so old when the Bible says it is so young. “Apparent age” has the convenient benefit...
by Pete Enns | Jul 11, 2016 | Bible and science, Christian faith and life, Uncategorized
Smart people tell us that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old and the edge of the observable universe is about 46.5 billion light years in any direction from the earth. Light travels about 5.87 trillion miles a year (you heard me). When I multiplied that...
