Book Review: The Bible Tells Me So....Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable To Read It. by Peter Enns

I want to start this review with a word of warning! Peter Enns is not a pastor, preacher, evangelist, TBN superstar, or Sunday school theologian. He is a University Professor, bible scholar/theologian. This book may make you stretch. I think "may" is an understatement though. Whether you are mainstream Christian, Messianic Jew, Hebrew Rooter, or fall anywhere else on the "I love the Creator of the universe" spectrum, this book is going to challenge your belief system, and you will laugh about it through your troubled tears. Why? Because that is exactly what Peter Enns does! He will make you experience many different emotions while reading.

Peter Enns attempts to help you define how you may currently view the Bible and then show you what it appears to be from a scholarly perspective. He does this in a way that only Peter Enns can do. Is it a book of rules to get you to the next life, a story of the Jews, an actual history book? Is it factually true or is it just made up? Just when you think you have his view pegged, he'll change your mind....over and over again. Not contradicting himself, just filling in our mental gaps that have formed in us because of the absolute depth and scope of the Bible and our inability to grasp it all as Gentile believers so far removed from the time and culture that the Bible was written in. His way of bringing to Bible into the 21st century so that we can apply our lives to it properly is not less than brilliant.

He will make you laugh to tears with his snarky disposition, teaching you to spot the metaphors that the Bible uses in it's writings that we often take as literal, then shows you how to wrestle with these metaphors and find the best meaning we are offered for our station in life. 

All in all, even though I found areas in the book that disturbed my theological waters, I truly enjoyed the book, Peter's learned perspective, and I believe I have a much better approach at studying the Bible in it's correct context. Not as a book of rules and regulations. 

I do recommend this book to every Believer. Bar none!

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