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With writing that is winsome, readable, and non-intimidating, he cuts a path between wooden literalism and faithless liberalism, giving us a way to read the Bible that is both faithful and intellectually credible.Stories of the past differ because storytellers are human beings. “Peter Enns has emerged as one of the stars of biblical interpretation for thinking Christians. This is a book that every Christian will be the better and richer for having read.” - Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence “The question of how to read, inwardly digest, and eventually ‘live’ the Bible is probably the most divisive one among Christians today. Fast.” - Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity

The message of this book needs to get out. And what does he write? A super-enjoyable, highly informative, disarmingly honest, and downright liberating book. ∼ross a stand-up comic, a robust theological mind, a college professor, and a decent normal guy, and what do you get? Peter Enns.

And he’s funny.” - Rob Bell, author of Love Wins If you’ve ever struggled with the violent or contradictory or just plain strange passages in the Bible, this book is for you. “Peter Enns has written a great book about The Book. “In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns addresses the problems of scripture form the position of an evangelical Christian who observes with candor and fresh humor that too often faithful readers approach the Bible with expectations it is not set up to meet.” - Publishers Weekly 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. 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. 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. 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.