It all has to be understood in the light of the resurrection of Jesus. It reflects many different ways that people understood God's story. It is a collection of stories - the stories God wanted his people (whether the Israelites of the Old Testament or the Christians since the New) to know and pass on. It is not a rule book or an owner's manual. I had the advantage of reading both and already understood Enns' principal theses.įirst of all, the Bible (and partcularly the Old Testament and the Gospels) is not what we have made it out to be. This book is written on a very popular level, but it might help the reader to have read his Inspiration and Incarnation and maybe even The Evolution of Adam, where he formulates his ideas in a more scholarly presentation. (And yes, I feel a bit like Jack Nicholson in that best known scene from "A Few Good Men".) So let me say I wish everyone could read this book.Įnns completely rattles the Evangelical paradigm of the Bible, while both claiming to be an Evangelical and claiming that the Bible is absolutely the Word of God. I don't think everyone can handle this book. You think with my five stars, I'd be saying that everyone should read this book.
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