{"product_id":"the-sin-of-certainty-why-god-desires-our-trust-more-than-our-correct-beliefs-paperback","title":"The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our Correct Beliefs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Enns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bible Tells Me So\u003c\/em\u003e explains how Christians mistake \"certainty\" and \"correct belief\" for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnns 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining Enns' reflections of his own spiritual journey with an examination of Scripture, \u003cem\u003eThe Sin of Certainty\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I had never openly explored my thinking about God, because I was taught that questioning too much was not safe Christian conduct--it would make God very disappointed in me, indeed, and quite angry. So dangerous thoughts lay dormant, never entering my conscious mind. . . . But a common and ordinary moment worked unexpectedly to snatch me from my safe, familiar, and unexamined spiritual neighborhood and plop me down somewhere I never thought I'd land. It was a forced spiritual relocation.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Sin of Certainty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen did being \"right\" with God come to mean believing the right things about God--believing the right doctrines, reading the Bible the right way, holding the right views? For many Christians, this idea is at the very center of their religious lives. And that's a problem. Because this focus on being correct can actually distract us from faith and from God. What happens when the security of \"knowing what you believe\" gets disrupted--as it does sooner or later? What if once-settled questions--like \"What is God really like?\"--suddenly become unsettled?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the questions that teacher and scholar Peter Enns addresses in \u003cem\u003eThe Sin of Certainty\u003c\/em\u003e. Here he explores what goes wrong when we have \"believing the right things\" at the center of our faith and what, instead, should be standing there. For those who have experienced their once rock-solid beliefs beginning to falter, Enns offers hope and guidance for finding a more trustworthy anchor. By exploring scripture and reflecting on his own journey, Enns reveals that challenges and crises of faith may be opportunities for deepening our faith and that God may be the one encouraging us to face those dangerous questions--in order for us to move from needing to be right to trusting God instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy \"Having the Right Beliefs\" Is Not the Same as Having Faith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Christians have gone off course by putting belief and certainty at the center of their faith instead of simply following and trusting Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Seldom have I read a book that I so totally agree with! This is a very fine, very readable, often humorous, and much needed analysis of what Western Christianity is up against.\"--Richard Rohr, author of \u003cem\u003eFalling Upward\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Enns is brilliant. This book is accessible, freeing, empowering, and beautiful. I underlined almost every page. I'm deeply thankful for Enns's work and his new book is right on time for many of us.\"--Sarah Bessey, author of \u003cem\u003eOut of Sorts\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJesus Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you're afraid that your theological questions and doubts disqualify you from being a person of faith, theologian Peter Enns has good news for you. Really good news. And it's a delightful read, too!\"--Brian McLaren, author of \u003cem\u003eA New Kind of Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers will welcome his puckish affirmation of the buoyant, sometimes outrageous, boundary-breaking capacity of biblical faith.\"--Walter Brueggemann, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Prophetic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966777393453,"sku":"9780062272096","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Q3ZJMm5EUDVpVXNQZS8ycUN4VHFtdz09.webp?v=1775538925","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-sin-of-certainty-why-god-desires-our-trust-more-than-our-correct-beliefs-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}