Every believer has struggled with some aspect of the biblical story. It may be the slaughter of Israel’s enemies at the direction of God. Perhaps it is the parallel accounts in the Hebrew Bible that seem to conflict with each other. Most often, we wonder how the four gospel writers could see things so differently. Scholars take various approaches to these challenges. Some deconstruct the writings and, in the process, deconstruct God. Seeing inconsistencies between the written word and their concept of God, they end up rejecting God. In The Bible Tells Me So , Professor Peter Enns take a different perspective. Although he addresses major questions about the Bible, he never gives up his faith in God. It is God who is holy, not the book about God. The book represents the efforts of God’s servants to construct meaning out of past and present events in their culture. We should not al...
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