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

5.0

This book put into words some thoughts I've been kicking around for a while. The main idea of this book is that the Bible is meant to tell us how to live: NOT to be a history or science textbook. Enns argues that it's fundamentally impossible to understand God through our flawed human minds, and that the Bible (written by flawed humans) reflects that. Enns draws from Jewish philosophy and from the Bible itself to show how trying to take Bible stories literally strips them of much of their meaning. The "contradictory" aspects of the Bible actually reflect the truth of God refracted through humanity's mindset, and guide us to the true relationship that God wants to have with us, his children.