Peter Enns Professions : Scholar Born : January 2, 1961 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Peter Enns Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all. Peter Enns losing-control mirrors expectations If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded. Peter Enns finding-yourself clay jesus Similar Authors Abu Rayhan al-Biruni scholar Abdullah Yusuf Ali scholar Diana L. Eck scholar David W. Johnson scholar Darrell Bock scholar Ibn Majah scholar All Authors