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I mean, if we try to explain Jesus's handling of his Bible in terms of how many Christians today feel the Bible "ought" to be read, Jesus will look like one of my college Bible students, playing free association with the Bible. Or worse, we may try to find some way of taking Jesus out of his ancient Jewish world and making him look more like a suburban Protestant, an urban hipster, a tea party spokesman, and so on.
— Peter Enns
Reimagining the God of the Bible is what Christians do. More than that, they have to, if they wish to speak of the biblical God at all.
— Peter Enns
Doubt is what being cornered by our thinking looks like. Doubt happens when needing to be certain has run its course.
— Peter Enns
Walking the path of faith means trusting God enough to let our uh-oh moments expose how we create God to fit in our thinking.
— Peter Enns
The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.
— Peter Enns
The Bible looks the way it does because "God lets his children tell the story," so to speak.
— Peter Enns
We should not be surprised when we find ourselves in a similar spot, experiencing a God who is not beholden to our thinking, a God who doesn't act according to our sense of certainty, even if we can find a Bible verse or two to back it up. God can't be proof-texted. God will not be backed into a corner.
— Peter Enns
There's an irony: the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In
— Peter Enns
I hear Aslan's words to Shasta: "'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story. . . . I tell no one any story but his own.
— Peter Enns
followers of Jesus always have and always will meet Jesus and see him from where they are and they will experience Jesus differently as a result.
— Peter Enns
To see what Paul sees, Christians today are summoned to join Paul: the reality of Jesus demands that the Old Testament be read not by the book, but against the grain.
— Peter Enns
whatever it means to speak of the Bible as inspired by God clearly doesn't mean the Bible is scrubbed clean of the human experience of the writers.
— Peter Enns