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Bible scholar Peter Enns explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool for cultivating God's wisdom.

?Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or intimidate us or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and wilder and more wonderful and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.??Sarah Bessey, author of Out of Sorts and Jesus FeministThe author of How the Bible Actually Works and The Bible Tells Me So explains how our model of God and faith must evolve as our understanding of the world deepens?just as the Bible describes it should.Life throws us ?curve balls??from devastating personal losses to world tragedies. These events often leave us doubting God, the Bible, and our faith. But instead of pushing away our reservations, we should embrace them, Peter Enns argues. A leading biblical scholar and Christian mentor, Enns has never been afraid to question the Bible or Christian beliefs. Such thoughtful inquisitiveness, he argues, is part of God's plan. He wants us to question, because doing so actually leads to a stronger, lasting faith.By reframing how we see these events, we allow ourselves to see how the Bible itself showcases this very process and that ?treating curve balls as the enemy? is not only counterproductive but thwarts God's goal of helping us become mature and wise. Enns shares a number of curve balls he's encountered in his own life and the questions he has pondered. Does God care about the millions of people who never heard the gospel? Could I relate to a God who has created a universe this big? If God is so relatable, constant, and caring, how do we explain quantum physics? He reveals how particular biblical passages have helped him find wisdom, and how they can do the same for us.As Curveball persuasively shows, God is bigger and more mysterious than anyone's expectations. We need a faith that can grow just as deeply.

For parents, churches, homeschool co-ops, and church schools, Telling God's Story provides an open-and-go curriculum for elementary religious instruction. Carefully researched, designed for maximum ease and minimum preparation time, these books are meant to help parents and teachers guide their children into a wider faith.

For parents, churches, homeschool co-ops, and church schools, Telling God's Story provides an open-and-go curriculum for elementary religious instruction. Carefully researched, designed for maximum ease and minimum preparation time, these books are meant to help parents and teachers guide their children into a wider faith.

Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing the effects of the Fall of Adam. However, an evolutionary view of beginnings doesn't allow for a historical Adam, making evolution seemingly incompatible with what Genesis and the apostle Paul say about him. For Christians who accept evolution and want to take the Bible seriously, this presents a faith-shaking tension.Peter Enns, an expert in biblical interpretation, offers a way forward by explaining how this tension is caused not by the discoveries of science but by false expectations about the biblical texts. Focusing on key biblical passages in the discussion, Enns demonstrates that the author of Genesis and the apostle Paul wrote to ask and answer ancient questions for ancient people; the fact that they both speak of Adam does not determine whether Christians can accept evolution. This thought-provoking book helps readers reconcile the teachings of the Bible with the widely held evolutionary view of beginnings and will appeal to anyone interested in the Christianity-evolution debate.

UNA INTRODUCCIÓN DESCONTRACTURADA AL LIBRO DEL GÉNESISDadas las polémicas controversias sobre la evolución, Adán y Eva, y la evidencia científica del diluvio, la persona promedio podría sentirse intimidada por el libro del Génesis. Sin embargo, detrás de los debates vertiginosos hay una historia tremenda; una que todos pueden entender y que ha cautivado a las personas durante siglos.Si no eres un erudito de la Biblia pero quieres ser capaz de leer Génesis y entenderlo a grandes rasgos, este libro breve e ingenioso es la guía que has estado esperando. Resúmenes claros y preguntas que estimulan al pensamiento proporcionan dirección para la reflexión personal y la discusión grupal.Entonces... ¿qué?Peter Enns, profesor de Estudios Bíblicos, y Jared Byas, profesor de Antiguo Testamento, resumen las claves del libro y nos ayudan a ver a Génesis como una historia antigua; una con relevancia continua para la experiencia humana de hoy. Génesis para Gente Normal ilumina a los personajes que llenan el primer libro de la Biblia, haciendo que resonemos con sus elecciones y luchas, mientras nos maravillamos con su mundo tan distante. Eso es lo que encontrarás aquí. Nada de pruebas científicas del texto o simples relatos moralistas, sino un mundo distante a disposición y una historia que, a menudo, resulta extraña, a veces peligrosa, y siempre llena de ricas posibilidades.Es una guía para gente normal. En un sentido, podrías preguntarte si calificas o no como normal. Si te conociéramos, también nos lo preguntaríamos. Pero lo que queremos decir es que este libro es para personas comunes, la persona que nunca fue a un seminario pero siente curiosidad acerca de cómo leer el libro de Génesis.

How can an evangelical view of Scripture be reconciled with modern biblical scholarship? In this book Peter Enns, an expert in biblical interpretation, addresses Old Testament phenomena that challenge traditional evangelical perspectives on Scripture. He then suggests a way forward, proposing an incarnational model of biblical inspiration that takes seriously both the divine and the human aspects of Scripture. This tenth anniversary edition has an updated bibliography and includes a substantive postscript that reflects on the reception of the first edition.

Seeking to bridge the existing gap between biblical studies and systematic theology, this distinctive series offers section-by-section exegesis of the Old Testament texts in close conversation with theological concerns. Written by respected scholars, the THOTC volumes aim to help pastors, teachers, and students engage in deliberately theological interpretation of Scripture.

Weekly religion lessons for second-graders, scripted for parents and teachers to make preparation and instruction straightforward and simple.