by Pete Enns | Oct 6, 2017 | nature of the Bible, The Bible Tells Me So
I get questions like this now and then. Pete, I hate you—but I digress. You talk about the Bible being “messy”—it has historical problems, tensions, and contradictions. How can such a messy book be God’s authoritative word to us? How can we now trust the Bible? My...
by Pete Enns | Sep 28, 2017 | Old Testament, The Bible Tells Me So
Here are 3 (interrelated) things about the Old Testament that have been driven home to me over the past 28 years ever since I set foot in a doctoral program, and that ring clear and true like a church bell on a crisp winter night. No, these aren’t the only three...
by Pete Enns | May 11, 2017 | nature of the Bible, The Bible Tells Me So
Here’s a question I get now and then. Pete, I hate you—but I digress. You keep talking about the messiness of the Bible—historical problems, tensions, and contradictions. How can such a messy book be God’s authoritative word to us? How can we now trust the...
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 | Sep 16, 2016 | Inspiration and Incarnation, The Bible Tells Me So, The Sin of Certainty, Uncategorized
My last two books The Bible Tells and So and The Sin of Certainty deal a lot with (spoiler alert) interpreting the Bible—namely what I think the Bible says about certain topics and how I think the Bible should be read. Of course, this has generated some questions,...
by Pete Enns | May 23, 2016 | nature of the Bible, The Bible Tells Me So, Uncategorized
Let’s talk about how our view of the God and our view of the Bible are enmeshed. Here is one example. If your dominant vision of God is of a sovereign king, enthroned above, who communicates to his subjects through written decrees mediated to inspired men borne along...
