The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

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The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So explains how Christians mistake certainty and correct belief for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy.With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar Peter Enns offers a fresh look at how Christian life truly works, answering questions that cannot be addressed by the idealized traditional doctrine of once for all delivered to the saints Enns offers a model of vibrant faith that views skepticism not as a loss of belief, but as an opportunity to deepen religious conviction with courage and confidence This is not just an intellectual conviction, he contends, but a profound kind of knowing that only true faith can provide.Combining Enns reflections of his own spiritual journey with an examination of Scripture, The Sin of Certainty models an acceptance of mystery and paradox that all believers can follow and why God prefers this path because it is only this way by which we can become mature disciples who truly trust God It gives Christians who have known only the demand for certainty permission to view faith on their own flawed, uncertain, yet heartfelt, terms. New Read The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs [ By ] Peter Enns [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This is indeed the most useless piece of Liberal emotional theological Crap I have ever been submerged in This book actually caused me to quit my church of 21 years Bye bye Wesleyan Methodist theology Nice people, bad lazy beliefs Moving on was inevitable, just needed ONE MORE damning great reason because of a recurring gue...Short Review I think that this is a book that is going to be misread by many and left unread by manybecause of the title The main theme is that the role of the church and of us as Christians is to trust Christ and love others as first priority Repeatedly throughout the book Enns makes clear that he is not opposed to creeds or theological boundaries, but he is opposed to misusing creeds and theological boundaries as an excuse to not love ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here life has all sorts of everyday and ordinary ways of upsetting our thinking about our faith I believe that, in these moments, God invites us to deepen and grow in our relationship with and our understanding of God 8 Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest What a shame 9 Seeking answers to those questions meant accepting the challenge of an unsettled faith That takes courage, and if there is one part of my spiritual life that atrophied over the life has all sorts of everyday and ordinary ways of upsetting our thinking about our fait...Peter Enns offers here a confessional book about how he came to understand belief and faithin terms of trust and love than in terms of facts and knowledge Many Christians place being correct about God at the center of faith, as did Enns, until a series of faith crises made him reconsider his understanding of Christianity The book is conversational, and so at times a little meandering, but it can be divided roughly into three parts history, exegesis, and theology First, history Enns Peter Enns offers here a confessional book about how he came to ...Several years back a noted evangelical Bible scholar was forced to resign from his teaching position at a conservative but fairly well regarded evangelical seminary Apparently a book he published didn t sit well in certain quarters of the seminaries constituency That seminary s loss became the gain for the broader body of Christ This often happens But it also freed him to beopen to the Spirit and to critical scholarship As I am going to be writing a review for the Englewood Review of Several years back a noted evan...Can it be a coincidence that I always seem to be reading specific books at just the right time I need to hear what they are saying I doubt it Peter Enns here sheds light on the problems a reliance on our right beliefs can cause in our walk with God Distinguishing faith and belief from what we think and say about God provides an important and necessary frame through which we see our life and God with us Faith and belief are trustful action words rather than doctrinal statements we recite, and Can it be a coincidence that I always seem to be reading specific books at just the right time I need to hear what they are saying I doubt it Peter Enns here sheds light on the problems a reliance on our right beliefs can cause in our walk with God Distinguishing faith and belief from what we think and say about God provides an important and necessary frame through which we see our life and God with us Faith and belief are trustful action words rather than doctrinal statements we recite, and as those statements shift here and there with time we can remain trusting in the faithfulness of God We can remain in relationship with God becau...Better Titled, The Morass of an Unmoored Life This is a book of astonishing unbelief and mockery I had been nominally aware of Peter Enns and the controversies surrounding him back in 2005 through my seminary days in 2008 and 2009 His trajectory has landed him in fields far, far, far from orthodoxy And he revels in his doubts.With endorsements by guys like Brian McLaren and Walter Brueggemann and favorable quotes within by the likes of Rob Bell, Thomas Merton, Mother Teresa, Greg Boyd, Better Titled, The Morass of an Unmoored Life This is a book of astonishing unbelief and mockery I had been nominally aware of Peter Enns and the controversies surrounding him back in 2005 through my seminary days in 2008 and 2009 His trajectory has landed him in fields far, far, far from orthodoxy And he revels in his doubts.With endorsements by guys like Brian McLaren and Walter Brueggemann and favorable quotes within by the likes of Rob Bell, Thomas Merton, Mother Teresa, Greg Boyd, Rachel Held Evans, Philip Yancey and Ann Lamott you get an idea for where this book is going Plainly, Peter Enns is not a Christian An impressive pedigree of degrees, and fourteen years a professor at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, PA, Peter writes in this book of his spiritual pilgrimage away from Evangelicalism and awakening to a conte...I simply cannot recommend this book enough, particularly to anyone who has participated for any amount of time in a religious community that all too often places a premium on the language of certainty e.g., what Enns refers to as right or correct beliefs Needing to know orients our religious experience too much on beliefs about rather than primarily as trust in Enns does an excellent job of conveying the need for each of us to keep our eye on the ball and place our ultimate trust in I simply cannot recommend this book enough, particularly to anyone who has participated for any amount of time in a religious community that all too often places a premium on the language of certainty e.g., what Enns refers to as right or correct beliefs Needing to know orients our religious experience too much on beliefs about rather than primarily as trust in Enns does an excellent job of conveying the need for each of us to keep our eye on the ball and place our ultimate trust in God Church, beliefs, doctrine etc all important but at the end of the day, these are all means to a muchimportant end a trusting and vulnerable relationship with God himself.For me, this book feltlike a conversation with a longtime kindred spirit As I was reading, my daughter came into my study and asked me who I was talking to Evidently, many of Enns insights had flipped my internal dialog switch to speakerphone mode and the rest of my family was subjected to seve...This book was extremely encouraging to me in my journey of faith at this point in my life It s no C.S Lewis deep theological writing, but it was exactly what I was needing The author almost gets a little redundant in his point, which is exactly what the title impliesbut it was like a push towards freedom in my life The author mentions several times, he doesn t have the answers, this isn t swapping out one idea of certainty for another.it is encouraging you to give up trying to hold on This book was extremely encouraging to me in my journey of faith at this point in my life It s no C.S Lewis deep theological writing, but it was exactly w...Enns does best when he is telling stories or looking at Biblical passages although I would have liked ain depth analysis here , but I found the book to get slightly repetitive despite only being about 200 pages It s a good premise, and important, but I wantedmeat However, it was written for a wide audience and is super accessible, which is a skill in itself I just wantedfrom it than I got Also he doesn t tell his own story until the end I think it was a driving force for Enns does best when he is telling stories or looking at Biblical pas...

The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
  • English
  • 08 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 230 pages
  • 006227208X
  • Peter Enns
  • The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs