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143. The Sin of Certainty — A Conversation with Peter Enns

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🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We couldn’t be more excited about today’s episode, and it’s with someone we’ve wanted to get on the podcast for years — Peter Enns. Pete is a well-known bible scholar and is the Abram S. Clemens professor of Bible Studies at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. In recent years, Pete has become well known for several highly popular books, including How the Bible Actually Works, The Bible Tells Me So, and the book we discussed with him today: The Sin of Certainty. In addition to his ...

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Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore

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a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th.

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It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be

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an exceptional conference.

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I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening

0:27.2

to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling

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a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our

0:41.8

shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a

0:48.3

sense of connection.

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I'm also going to be one of the people speaking.

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I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the

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light of Christ.

1:01.1

And so I hope to see you all there.

1:05.3

Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

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I couldn't be more excited about today's episode.

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This is actually somebody that we've wanted to get on the podcast for years.

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Peter ends.

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Pete is a well-known Bible scholar and the Abraham S. Clements professor of Bible studies

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at Eastern University in Pennsylvania.

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In recent years, Pete has become well-known for several highly popular books, including

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how the Bible actually works, the Bible tells me so, and the book that we discuss with

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him today, The Sin of Certainty.

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