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Book: The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
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  1. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    Seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: "The eternal silence of the infinite spaces terrifies me.
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  2. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    Two great critiques of modernity by biblical scholars are Walter Brueggemann's Texts Under Negotiation and Walter Wink's The Bible in Human Transformation."
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  3. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    Trust like this is an affront to reason, the control our egos crave. Which is precisely the point. Trust does not work because we have captured God in our minds. It works regardless of the fact that, at the end of the day, we finally learn that we can't."
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  4. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    Trust does not cancel our mind but circumscribes it and tames it-and so we do not succumb to fretting or anxious thoughts of being unsure.
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  5. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it. As I reflect on my own experience and that of many others far wiser than I, God seems willing to help that process along."
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  6. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    Doubt is what being cornered by our thinking looks like. Doubt happens when needing to be certain has run its course.
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  7. Peter Enns _ The Sin of Certainty: Why God

    The deeper problem here is the unspoken need for our thinking about God to be right in order to have a joyful, freeing, healing, and meaningful faith. The problem is trusting our beliefs rather than trusting God."
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