The Nature of Scripture and the Question of Evolution with Peter Enns
Sep.16, 2012 in
Guest Appearances, Podcast Episodes
In this episode Ray is joined by Dr. Peter Enns for a discussion about the ideas in his books Inspiration and Incarnation and The Evolution of Adam. What is the nature of Scripture? How are we to understand the balance between divine inspiration and human authorship in Scripture? Was Adam an historical person? Join us for a discussion about these questions and more! Make sure to check out both Inspiration and Incarnation and The Evolution of Adam by Peter Enns for a more in-depth look into the issues addressed in this episode and visit his blog at http://peterennsonline.com/.
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September 17th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
what I hear Enns saying is that God it’s not logical, and logic was invented in the Enlightenment.
September 23rd, 2012 at 10:59 am
“I try to link together the idea of Christ’s incarnation with the idea of what it means for God to inspire a text … and the connector between the two is that the inspiration of the text does not yield us a Bible that’s disassociated from its cultural context. Just like the Jesus that we have is not disassociated from his cultural context – they both are there, and so if we accept that, as we gladly do, with Jesus, (then) there are implications of that for how we think of the Bible too.”
“Resolution is not the point. The point is the dialogue. That’s part of communing with God…by struggling with the text. What is the history of (biblical) Israel, if not a struggle. That’s what Israel means in Hebrew, “struggling with God,” … that’s sort of what they do.”
~Peter Enns
Excellent Interview, Raborn…as usual!!!!
Judy Gale
Chapel Hill, NC