Lexoni Livros The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust
More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By Peter Enns
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 more 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
