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

Mx Chris Paige, OtherWise Christian, -21Įach of Enns’ chapters is broken up into small sub-sections, which helps to make it an easy read. … I gained a Bible–and a God–I was free to converse with, complain to, talk back to, interrogate, and disagree with, not as an act of rebellion, but as an act of faith and trust, rather than needing to tiptoe around lest a grumpy God lash out with plague, famine, and sword if I get the Bible wrong–like an abusive, drunken father you don’t want to wake from his nap. … I needed to learn (apparently the hard way) that trusting God is not the same thing as trusting the Bible–let alone my own ideas about the Bible. I would let go of a well-behaved Bible and try to trust God without a safety net. He shares about the collapse of his childhood understanding of the Bible and how facing up to the challenge of the Bible and allow it to change how he experiences God and tradition. In The Bible Tells Me So, Enns similarly tackles the biblical tradition in a thoughtful, irreverent, and self-deprecating manner. I actually cited The Bible Tells Me So in OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation, though only briefly. In addition to How the Bible Works (2019), Peter Enns previously wrote The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (2014).

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