A review by tdblaylock
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns, Joe Barrett

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

This is one that I'll have to sit with and wrestle over for a while. Enns gives a new (but actually old) way for reading the Bible. His argument is that we have turned the Bible into a creation of our own, putting fences around it, and trying to make it behave the way we want it to. While being both academic and humorous, he walks the reader through how the Bible should be read- not as an historical analysis of Israel, but as a story written by a particular people in a particular time showing how they relate to God in the present by writing about the past. If that sounds confusing, that's because it is. Thankfully, Enns goes into great detail and explains this very eloquently. This book will definitely make me we the Bible in a new light, by not seeing the Bible as an instruction manual, but a place to find Godly wisdom in different phases of life as God meets me where I am.