One of the things I wonder is how these two general groups not talk past each other. And make sure you bring your oil along with your lamps as the bridegroom is a long time in coming yet always arrives soon. . I teach courses in Old and New Testaments at Eastern University (near Philadelphia). Enns is a frequent contributor to journals and encyclopedias and is the author of several . Most people who are not believers are not believers because this side has so much certainty over things that we should not be saying we have so much certainty over. There are surely myriad of ways of knowing God In the provIsIons that are avaIlable to each one of us, As one is riding the Starlight Express propelled through time experiencing mAturity, old Age And deAth. Here's where the money is going! Tweets at @peteenns. Evidence can be internal, which whether or not you rationally elaborate upon or take the direct perceptive route nonetheless still falls into that domain. This emphasis on experience is important at a simple, direct level (participating in corporate worship, daily prayer, seeing/hearing God in others, etc. How have we regressed so far in 56 years? And we can also look at those experiences, and see if there is an element of illusion about them. Indeed. Peter Enn's Argument for a Metaphorical Interpretation of the Bible and Why Universalism Is As Legit As . Doesnt everyone including yourself feel an urge to respond given an open forum and divergent points of view? Some people live with more uncertainty than you do. But may I pose this: While some would say the orthodox Nature of God and his Oneness pertains to Being, I think most more linearly worship something that is more a manner of /a/ being than Being. The good news is that those who humble themselves and say yes when He calls do experience Him in an undeniable complete way. Instead it looks like people have a wide variety of reality tunnels and interpretations. And there is no one way to come to belief or faith in God, and in Christ our Savior. But is that version of a Messiah a bringer of healing to all? Enns seeks to grow us in maturity so that we might take up wisdom. If we raise it all today (or tomorrow or Wednesday tbh) we're going to make. It does though offer means to consider qualitative differences. Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2-3 it carries the definite article ha, equivalent to English "the", indicating that this is "the man". Christianity is already becoming irrelevant to the younger millennials. When a European team of scientists and an American team and a Chinese team run an experiment, the results are consistent. First, note the way I phrased the staged questions above. It went something like this: Your desire to employ empiricism as a means of knowing God; you are like a person in the middle of a realm with night-vision goggles, microscopes, radar equipment, headphones and such. I think the sooner the Church heals the Great Schism and returns to the even the faith of Jesus certainly before Constantine and possibly before Paul, the better she will be on a cosmic mission. We struggle with and within the limits of what we can come to know. And I echo your sentiments on the value of a more contemplative way of life. On the contrary, I have never been disappointed by God. It isnt about intellectual knowing and many people butcher Christianity when they think it is Im afraid. Id suggest that this is even true among the authors of Scripture and with general trends by the centuries as well as across Fowlers stages of faith as well as by denomination and religion. Find it on Amazon: http://amzn.to/19X9WC7Find it at CBD: http://bit.ly/1dnBcesPeter Enns discusses the inerrancy of the Bible as an often contentious topic. Or become a universalist mystic, or a philosophical theist rather than a religious one, and continue to question just what kind of God really exists, and what we can know for sure about who or what God is? Really, evidence is simply a modern, western way of coming to belief or faith or knowledge? Im familiar with various concepts of God. There is an even less certain, less dogmatic, less religious, kind of trust. But, that we ourselves interact, relate, care, love is even more important. By Peter K. Enns I have published three books: Hijacking the Agenda (with Chris Witko, Nate Kelly and Jana Morgan), Incarceration Nation, and Who Gets Represented? These are subjective, private experiences. Such soon discover that He is indeed a God Who communicates and is very capable of laying out a clear path for us to follow. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. Usually we treat eye-witness testimonies as valid proofs of an experience, especially when they corroborate key elements of the same story (granted one can misinterpret what their senses tell them). Most Evangelicals find themselves on that path when their evidence takes a beating and they retreat to the world of mystery. Id be interested to know then what your thoughts are with the more broad, inclusive sense of evidence then. This is a dangerous and unbiblical attitude. As for your books title, The Sin of Certainty, you seem pretty certain that sin exists, though I suspect humans dont really need thatll added theological term since it seems more like a metaphor for any selfish behavior people of all religions or none already view in a negative fashion. Lets not let a label lead us toward an equivocation. Well that seems to me to be more of a way of guessing then? Rather, knowledge of God is described by terms like: immediacy Redemption to a broken world? He has written or edited over a dozen books and many articles and essays. Yep. Just dont mistakethis as an argument for Gods existence. Its just where my thinking process is. Thanks for posting this. Namely the objective facts that these experiences are shared between many parents, that they have roughly the same qualia of experience, and that having a child of your own seems to bring them about. I'm attaching my 6 page summary of Peter Enns' new book, Genesis for Normal People: Enns on Genesis.doc (55.5 KB) Dr. Enns attempts to simply explain for average Christians how many scholars read Genesis. "what Genesis says about Adam and the consequences of his actions does not seem to line up with the universal picture that Paul paints in Romans and 1 Corinthians []. Edward, you assume that people cant hold doubt while maintaining a vibrant Christian faith that is simply not true. Instead of humbly stating this belief as an opinion, Joker3857 blatantly says "then dont be one". If we hold to the same manner in which we share any other experience with those around us, we would ge bound to accept this. 1 Say: He is Allah, the One and Only; Instead only their book features inspired writingsthe truth and stories necessary to believe, and of course conservatives, moderates and liberals differ concerning what that book really means or what the most essential and necessary lessons are. Now one can doubt that the man, Peter ever lived, but there are extra-biblical references to him as being the head of the church. He affirms that Israel's laws were not new in content but were uniquely in that they were connected to a monotheistic community-Israel (57). Thankfully it is much less today. By Edward Wagenknecht, There is also the Alan Watts definition of the difference between having beliefs and having faith. Or Osama bin Ladin or Warren Jeffs for that matter. And now my 800 words are up. So please do not think I am trying to quantitize it in some scientific sense. But parents in talking with each other can often immediately grasp when a fellow parent reveals that they share that same experience. These "ancient, ambiguous, and. Relationship is key, whether we are thinking about non-living parts of the cosmos, the living world, human-human relationships or human-divine relationships. Such is life. http://edward-t-babinski.blogspot.com/2015/01/leaving-ministry-left-ministry-polls.html. immediacy. I realize that there is a long and rich history of discussion over difficult philosophical issues concerning the existence of God. I would like you to rethink your own perspective a bit more, perhaps move a bit more toward universalism and religious pluralism like John Hick, but even that would not be nearly as far away from your present point of view as the distance you have already come from fundamentalism to your present point of view. Its generally NOT considered trustworthy; if it was then Bigfoot and alien abductions would be accepted beyond the fringe as accurate descriptions of reality/history. A Review by Norman Geisler of Peter Enns's, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids . Good point. The gathered Body of Christ? In passing, he also makes a very interesting observation about contemporary Protestant theology: "I live in an ecclesial world in which those who value Christian orthodoxy as a concept seem invariably to drift towards either Rome or Constantinople or some amalgamation of the two which is represented by no existing church. Great Value. Wonder of breathing and wonder of stars and wonder of babies are indeed wonders. You will know whom I mean, Atheism may be comparatively popular with God himself, When a pious visitor inquired sweetly, Henry, have you made your peace with God? he replied, We have never quarreled., Henry David Thoreau as quoted in Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? Or even what the cosmos is? It is in this context, that Christianity, for me, is a profound disappointment. . God is just another word for magic. But our access to the world of the Spirit is made possible by the existence of our own spirit. Call it a transcendental trust like Thoreau had, or like John Hick in our own day. We're raising 50k for our campaign. straight into the night our hearts were flung If you ask your typical Tibettan Buddhist monk, deeply committed to this same type of contemplative knowing, to describe their experience they will articulate something akin to everything you describe. True mystics do experience God in a tangible manner that is more real than anything that could ever be experienced through the five senses although those senses may be secondarily affected. Then once that person starts walking with God God (should) will reveal the truth to them. Indeed, it is a way of knowing that has been championed as part of the development of culture in the Western tradition, but to pigeon hole the method as somehow distinctively Western is to lose something about its universality in a universe that significantly appears to exhibit fundamental uniformity. In reality you rarely hear about the average Christian,. On what basis is God still an option for you?. He has written numerous books, including The Bible Tells Me So, The Sin of Certainty, and How the Bible Actually Works. For those who hold the view that the Bible contains an ever-expanding revelation of the truth and knowledge of God from beginning to end, what is to be taken away from your article? No matter how much you imagine or try. It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover that God is. What do you think of people like George Mller? You can hold your views and that is simply fine (I respect them) but just because you cannot see the reasons for people maintaining a doubting christian faith does not mean you are right and everyone else should take a step further and doubt the whole thing That is an over simplification of the complexity of the christian faith. Open your eyes to what there is to see, or let Jesus open them for you (Mark 8, by daubing mud) and I theres not that much problem. 2. Polls, Statistics and other Data Peter Enns (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Abram S. Clemens professor of biblical studies at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. It sounds like you are on that path. Scrivenings Christians depression, suicide. I suspect that leaving the Westminster cocoon could be unsettling, but you are still ensconced cozily in the moderate to liberal Christian cocoon. Thanks for this insight. Pages turning But it takes the work of the Spirit of God in ones life to actually believe and rely upon these evidences. What should be the impact? As I see it, knowledge ofGod accesses different ways of knowing. It just begs the question, which one? Dave Burbank With all due respect my guess is you dont really engage with non-believers in person? Deities that the Christian faith does not hold to exist. not be confused with experience. And two, what does exist mean? He has taught extensively at the seminary and doctoral levels (Westminster Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Biblical Theological Seminary) and on the undergraduate level (Temple University and Messiah College). Now I understand that that rational certainty is a gift from God, but would you say that 1 John 5:13 is false or irrational or not to be trusted? But the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth, argues Bible scholar Peter Enns. Though I do see you headed in the general direction of Frank Schaeffer author of the recent book, Why I am an atheist who still believes in God. Peter Enns' new book, How the Bible Actually Works, at its best seeks to place us on the hard, but rewarding, path of wisdom. An Atheist that believes in God. Depending on how you interpret Gods word, I hope He is not good to it in the sense of damning nonbelievers to an eternity of torment. We go crazy in solitary confinement, when stranded on an island, when lost in the wilderness solo. Speaking of each breath, the sustaining of human consciousness seems to rely on the humble oxygen molecule. Yet how is this testimony for more than such kind of belief being an adaptive trait? AMA. Historically, I understand the Mystics predate the Enlightenment or Modernity, but I think it was Friedrich Schleiermacher who cut a swath through the rough underbrush of Empiricism to find a spiritual path that was immediate and subjective. Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep himI should keep myself, ratherat a more respectful distance. It is transrational. As is knowledge of the Theotokos. But you do know that you know because your knowing has a depth and immediacy to it that is never present in simply knowingabout thingseven merely knowing about God. I agree that post-enlightenment empiricism is never going to lead to genuine interaction with the creator, but what about prayer? Of course, it helps that I have absolutely no expectations of him whatsoever. . His research and teaching focus on public opinion and political representation, mass incarceration and the legal system, and data science. who made you need milk? Im still working on itof course. Thanks for an honest perspective which does not offer more than can be proven. Im more so now in my life in the former group of people. And there seems to be a bit of a one-way mirror phenomenon going on. Try the works of John Hick, former Evangelical who became a fascinating philosopher of religion and sought a common transcendental basis for them all. Which does seem not tranrational but rather irrational. In fact, if comparisons between spiritual experience seem to demonstrate anything, it is that perhaps the only objectively true thing we can say about it is that it is a very unreliable means of experience vulnerable to various illusions of reality. I love this observation, especially about projects and their being emphatically contrasted to silence and solitude. Whoever accepts His Attributes to be other than His Person then actually forsakes the idea of Unity of God and believes in duality ( He and His Attributes). Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. Our Western universe has given rise to marvelous things (as you mentioned) but it has blinded us to other dimensions of the soul that reveal a much larger reality outside of our ability to reason or carry out prescribed functions. Because of these aspects, thinking is a collaborative engagement. Theists believe magic is real. [1] April 2015 am Universal-museum Joanneum in Graz (Schild von Steier, Beiheft 8 / Forschungen zur geschichtlichen Landeskunde der Steiermark 79) Archologie in sterreich 1938 1945 Danner Salzburg. He is a former Senior Fellow of Biblical Studies for BioLogos and author of many books and commentaries, including Inspiration and Incarnation, The Evolution of Adam, and The Bible Tells Me So.His most recent book is The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs. just try it i bet you gain their trust better. Are we to have doubts that Lincoln actually wrote it there are no living eye-witnesses needless to say. The idea there is magic in the universe is ridiculous, childish, and completely impossible. An Atheist Evolutionist Asks a Good Question of Dr. Peter Enns October 22, 2012 It seems that Young Earth Creationists are not the only ones who find BioLogos' attempt to "reconcile science and faith" lacking. None can fully understand or explain His Being however hard he my try. Not really. If only she knew in her lifetime that more than just those nuns was going to be reading her works but many people would be influenced and inspired by her theology. But one alternative is to have a church, mosque, and a Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu temple, close together on every corner with no ones sign larger or higher than the rest, to remind ourselves we can indeed all truly get along. You are presuming that I am naive about other religions. depth pages we were years from learning However, there are many Christians in our country who also want to enforce solely biblical beliefs here too. Read Dr. Enns onAcademia.edu He has written numerous books, including The Bible Tells Me So, The Sin of Certainty, and How the Bible Actually Works. Thoughts. Id take the liberty of summarizing that your belief in God, to the extent you do, is based on faith, not fact. First, let me say that I hold to the position that without faith one cannot please God His words, not mine. Havent found much written on it. This blog was first posted in March 2016. Sorry for the aimless rambling and thanks again for your post! Heh, that brings back memories of being taught as a child that every breath I took was the providential, direct action of Jesus. Or at least you have come near enough to listen and understand much of what Frank has to say. Enns prefers this approach because it supports his view of Adam as proto-Israel (107) and maintains an Israel-centered focus rather than a universal one (106). That said, I can see the contemplative Hindu or Buddhist saying the exact same thing. When people insist that the Apostles Creed is where you have to start, its no wonder that you wind up with some people who dont believe in God and other people who dont believe in the World. Why do you write books attempting to make more conservative Evangelicals rethink their perspective on the authority of the Bible? We also know how it may be tricked to produce the illusion of say motion or scale that is not really there. Specifically on love as a way of knowing. ), and you certainly dont hear much about divorce, suicide And I also can grok the paradoxical Essence of a Triune God, the kind of God allowing himself to be humbled and broken in kenotic sacrifice as an example of a new Way of Being, in hope of bringing forth a Kingdom. But how is it that you still believe in God? And this is the connection to mysticism. This way of knowing, too, is a pluralistic way of knowing and can be reflected upon both with and without special pleading. Legitttttttt. . There can be various degrees of certainty, of course. The social architecture of the church, from leadership to prayer groups, all functions along protocols and vetting systems based on doctrinal beliefs, trust-building with leaders, participation in activities, meetings and conferences, etc. Were two thousand years in. I like your emphasis here. Faced with the incoherence of a fundamentalist/evangelical reaction to modernity, I have no problem accepting Pascals Wager and embracing your mystical/existential explanation. 2 Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; What does is look like to seek God? Twelve years later, Old Testament scholar Peter Enns has confirmed my suspicions, . There are multitudes of examples of God giving evidence to his people so they might believe, or trust him. attestations that Lincoln composed the Gettysburg Address. Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies, Back to Undergraduate Theology Department, Graduate & Online Undergraduate Admissions, Palmer Theological Seminary and Palmer College. Peter Enns, Ph.D. Peter Enns Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies 610-341-1491 McInnis 200B penns@eastern.edu Dr. Enns is a biblical scholar who teaches and writes on Old Testament, New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and the intersection of biblical studies and contemporary Christian faith. Did you see the same thing I saw? Does it mean that same thing to you?. The coding and operation of these systems is communicated in the sermons and recommended literature. I said that when it comes to experiences, peoples experience of Allah or Yahweh or Jesus or Krishna or Buddha lay along a wide spectrum. He speaks actively in academic and ecclesiastical venues on topics pertaining the Bible and Christian faith. God or not God? St. Davids, PA 19087-3696 And the one thing that every single wisdom tradition or religious group teaches is the way. 1300 Eagle Road 3. But regarding a mans spiritual experience cannot be denied, well the experience may not perhaps but certainly the interpretation of it can. But I also get that Christianity isnt really transforming the world through compassion essentially better than anything or anyone else. What gives? This is very simple. 75-76]. Interesting Beau, thanks. If there is still to be a link to truth there at all. Here are a couple ways: 1) Do they insist on making incorrect statements about the world as-is? Pete Enns is the Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University. He argues that the Bible should not be used as a literal "instruction manual but as a model for our spiritual journey," a very liberal take on Christianity. So its great that God is guiding you and keeping you safe but yet not doing the same for kids with cancer etc. Dr. Enns is a biblical scholar who teaches and writes on Old Testament, New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and the intersection of biblical studies and contemporary Christian faith. Fideism is a rich and credible approach to knowing God. If yes, then how are we to treat the writings from the same period by men such as Josephus or Pliny. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where "'the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.' 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