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




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.

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

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.

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

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.





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