“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 the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.” — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“[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 through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the…” quote by Peter Enns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4f/peter-enns-28232_church_the-lord-s-supper-teaches-that-rituals-a_787566.jpg)
