A review by lisagray68
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns

4.0

Recently the book "The Sin of Certainty" by this same author was recommended to me, but as this is his earlier book, and a little bit of biography about his faith journey, I decided to read it first. At first, the Christian reader might be a bit nervous; his postulation being that maybe you do not have to take everything about the Bible literally. However, this isn't an argument to discredit the Bible as it normally is. It's an argument to use to OVERCOME some of the problematic issues that people have with the Bible, such as an Old Testament violent God; the disconnect between the Bible and science, and so forth. Peter Enns suggests that the Old Testament is written by tribal people who were storytellers, and that God loves stories and uses them to convey His story. Instead of this being a bad thing, God allows the telling of stories to be used because stories are more powerful than non-fiction books of rules - every author and movie maker knows that. Whatever you think of his suggestion, it's an interesting and powerful read; one that would be so helpful to those that have turned away from faith because they can't square some of the things that trouble them about the Bible.