"Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with……" — Peter Enns

"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 act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all."

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2 Quotes by Peter Enns

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If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting…

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