“The Bible isn’t a cookbook—deviate from the recipe and the soufflé falls flat. It’s not an owner’s manual—with detailed and complicated step-by-step instructions for using your brand-new all-in-one photocopier/FAX machine/scanner/microwave/DVR/home security system. It’s not a legal contract—make sure you read… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“I find it strangely comforting that walking the path of Christian faith means being confronted moment by moment with what is counterintuitive and ultimately… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“The Bible isn’t a cookbook—deviate from the recipe and the soufflé falls flat. It’s not an owner’s manual—with detailed and complicated step-by-step instructions for… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.” — Peter Enns Copy Share
“Doubt is God’s instrument, will arrive in God’s time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“I’VE BEEN ON A JOURNEY of rediscovering the Bible and the God behind it for over thirty years and I don’t see that journey… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“The bottom line is that for Wellhausen and many other biblical scholars before and since, the Pentateuch as we know it (an important qualification)… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“judging by how the Bible actually behaves—God did not design scripture to be a hushed afternoon in an oak-paneled library. Instead, God has invited… — Peter Enns Copy Share
If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul,… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“This is extremely significant. Knowing something of when the Pentateuch came to be, even generally, affects our understanding of why it was produced in… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“The Pentateuch was not authored out of whole cloth by a second-millennium Moses but is the end product of a complex literary process—written, oral,… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but alas, not… — Peter Enns Copy Share
“It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather,… — Peter Enns Copy Share
