Best The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It By Peter Enns
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Ebook About 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.Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion, teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. 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.Rejecting the increasingly complicated intellectual games used by conservative Christians to “protect” the Bible, Enns was conflicted. 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.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. 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.Book The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It Review :
747 "The Bible Tells Me So" was recommended to me as a thought-provoking, thinking person's guide toward understanding Scripture better. Unfortunately, I found that Enns' book was rife with spiritually-garbled conclusions and some blatant misinformation. Enns' views greatly deflect from the inherent qualities of the Supremacy and Sovereignty of a Holy, Righteous and Powerful God. In fact, Enns doesn't like to use the "Sovereign" argument regarding what he sees as anomalies in Scripture.This book (and similar ones by other authors -- i.e., "The Heresy of Ham" by Joel Edmund Anderson) is fraught with syncretic humanism -- trying to blend who God says He is with what "they" have decided He should be. "They" often define God according to their own intellectual and emotional criteria -- bereft of the supernatural spirituality of the Bible. "They" tend to determine what is considered humanly acceptable, culturally relevant, and what fits neatly within their own varied and comfortable parameters.In the early chapters, for example, Enns cannot accept that God actually "wrote" the whole Bible -- that it was supernaturally "breathed" and orchestrated by God Himself. He denies (p.8) that God has given the Bible to man as (Enns' words) "a step-by-step field guide to the life of faith, an absolute sure answer book to unlock the mystery of God and the meaning of life".He says that looking at the Bible from this perspective is viewing it with "unrealistic expectations" for genuine faith which is therefore a sure way to losing that faith thus leading to a life of stress. [As a side note, I believe there are multiple generations of people -- a lot of whom died in the process -- who have relied on Scripture for the very reasons Enns says are worthless.]Yes, at first glance, the Bible appears to contain major conflicting situations -- on the one hand God says not to do "A" but then turns around and says do "A" or He may do "A" Himself. These stories and situations cannot be understood in isolation or according to our own cultural "sensibilities", but rather should be approached from God's perspective -- who God says He is -- the intent and background of each circumstance -- how each circumstance relates to God -- His plans -- the actions of the people involved -- the point God is making -- and a host of other issues. In describing God's seemingly conflicting instructions about "killing", Enns mentions God's instruction to Abraham to sacrifice his son -- his only son. (pp .30-31) Enns says God's was TESTING Abraham's faith and God does stop Abraham at the final moment. Agreed. But the Bible goes further -- explaining just how deep Abraham's faith was. In Hebrews 11, we find that Abraham understood and intensely believed God's promise to make a great nation of him through Isaac, his son. Abraham understood that even if he went through with the sacrifice, that God would raise his son Isaac back to life. Otherwise, God would be a liar -- meaning with Isaac dead, God could not carry through with his promise to make a great nation through him as He had specifically said. Additionally, the reference here to raising back to life is generally understood as relating to the resurrection of Jesus (John 8:56). This is huge. Its this kind of deeper issue that can govern the various seemingly bizarre contrasts in Scripture and the kind of thing Enns either misses or doesn't want to believe.Because Enns doesn't believe the Bible is God's statement of literal events, he comes to conclusions such as this quote on p. 54: "God never told the Israelites to kill the Canaanites. The Israelites BELIEVED God told them to kill the Canaanites." (My emphasis.)He doesn't believe what God vehemently said in Deuteronomy 7 and therefore denies the reasoning behind God's statements. Enns doesn't give credence to God's strong directives to the Israelites to destroy the Canaanites because they were (1) against God and (2) because God doesn't want the pagan Canaanites influencing the Israelites who God is establishing as a non-pagan nation and also (3) God specifically repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. Because of his denial, it is clear that Enns can't attribute to God those characteristics which make God God. Here Enns doesn't truly grasp God's Holiness and therefore His intolerance for evil; His Sovereignty in directing the actions of the Israelites; His purpose in calling out a people for His own, and His further purpose in using the Israelites to eventually bring in the Messiah God promised way back in Genesis 3.Enns attributes many claims of archeology as proof that the "stories" in the Bible are not literally true. Unfortunately, Enns has failed to properly vet these archeological conclusions he references. As one particular example (p.59), he states that the results of archeological digs prove the Jericho/wall story to be false. What he misses is that (1) those who performed the earliest digs in the early 1900's did not understand their findings; (2) these findings were blatantly corrected in an extensive dig in the 1950's; (3) that a later (one-month) investigation in 1997 which purported to disprove the wall was politically and religiously motivated specifically to discredit the wall and therefore the Bible and Judaism. In other words, they lied. (4) A follow-up study around that same year not only disproved the one-month study but found even more evidence for the actuality of Jericho's fallen wall. (5) In fact: "Three major expeditions to the site over the past 90 years [have] uncovered abundant evidence to support the Biblical account.”Okay, so these are just a few specific points in the earliest chapters. Enns' view of Scripture seems to vacillate at various points -- sometimes he seems to be denigrating it but at later times he gives it credence. I wonder if some of the views expressed in the beginning of the book are in reality frustrations with protestantism relative to the Bible. On the other hand, he does make some pretty definitive statements that make one question how he ultimately arrives at his Spiritual beliefs. If the Bible isn't supernaturally God's Word and only parts of it make sense, or are accepted, where are people supposed to get the solid truth that defines their entire belief system. Where are we supposed to learn who God is -- from MYTHS??? Myths that Enns says are embellished stories??? One cannot believe in an UNsupernatural god of any type -- that is what any religion is. So how are we to accurately understand a supernatural God?? Can we really trust the message of eternal life??? If I read Enns, the answer isn't clear.One last thing: If you are interested in a book that will help you live a joyous and productive spiritual life according to what God says in the Bible, Harold Hill's short book -- HOW TO LIVE LIKE A KING'S KID is dynamite. In this little book, Hill firmly believes Scripture IS God's word and he holds God to account accordingly. The results are amazing. 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