Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule Book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by refusing to provide us with easy answers but instead forces us to acquire wisdom.
Moving us beyond the damaging idea that "being right" is the most important measure of faith, Enns\'s freeing approach to Bible study helps us to instead focus on pursuing enlight.
How the Bible Actually Works makes clear that there is no one right way to read the Bible.
Rather Than considering the Bible as an Ancient Book weighed down with problems, flaws, and contradictions that must be defended by modern readers, Enns offers a vision of the holy scriptures as an inspired and empowering resource to help us better understand how to live as a person of faith today.
The Bible, in other words, really isn\'t the problem; having the wrong expectation is what interferes with our reading.
This distinction, he points out, is important because when we come to the Bible expecting it to be a textBook intended by God to give us unwavering certainty about our faith, we are Actually creating problems for ourselves.
But when we allow the Bible to determine our expectations, we see that Wisdom, not answers, is the Bible\'s true subject matter," writes Enns. "The Bible becomes a confusing mess when we expect it to function as a ruleBook for faith.
Rather, the Bible is a dynamic instrument for study that not only offers an abundance of insights but provokes us to find our own answers to spiritual questions, cultivating God\'s Wisdom within us.
It does not hold easy answers to the perplexing questions and issues that confront us in our daily lives.
But the Bible is not static, Peter Enns argues.
For many Christians, the Bible is a how-to manual filled with literal truths about belief that must be strictly followed.
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule Book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by refusing to provide us with easy answers but instead forces us to acquire wisdom
