Enns Quotes

#1. When we see one another in heaven, we will have beautiful bodies that will far surpass the beauty of our bodies on this earth.

Paul P. Enns

#2. We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.

Paul P. Enns

#3. The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.

Paul P. Enns

#4. A magnificent restoration awaits us ... Christ comes in judgment; then restoration.

Paul P. Enns

#5. Protestant church tradition developed over several centuries when Christians were not yet forced, by virtue of the culminating evidence, to see the Bible in its ancient context.

Peter Enns

#6. Some choose to be strong because they wish to rule others. Some choose to be strong because they wish to help others. Some choose to be strong because they've experienced the alternative and never want to be weak again. What

Blair Enns

#7. I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part - which is more than enough to keep us busy.

Peter Enns

#8. While we look forward to a new heaven, let's first consider the new earth, for the new earth will indeed be like heaven on earth. We will live on a restored earth.

Paul P. Enns

#9. The new earth will be like Eden..the deserts will gush with water ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

Paul P. Enns

#10. As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time.

Peter Enns

#11. 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

#12. God, through Jesus Christ, is the victory, and the renewed earth will reflect that glory.

Paul P. Enns

#13. Prosperity and security are ours in heaven. We will live in peace and safety.

Paul P. Enns

#14. As believers we have no need to fear death. Christ himself assures us of a safe arrival home in heaven!

Paul P. Enns

#15. And for Christians, the gospel has always been the lens through which Israel's stories are read - which means, for Christians, Jesus, not the Bible, has the final word. The story of God's people has moved on, and so must we.

Peter Enns

#16. Heaven is where God dwells. It is a specific place; ... a place of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. It includes the new heaven and new earth.

Paul P. Enns

#17. To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.

Peter Enns

#18. God created man for fellowship ... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.

Paul P. Enns

#19. The first question we should ask about what we are reading is not "How does this apply to me?" Rather, it is "What is this passage saying in the context of the book I am reading, and how would it have been heard in the ancient world?

Peter Enns

#20. As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

Paul P. Enns

#21. The church is the bride of Christ. The kingdom will be the eternal celebration of the wedding of Christ and the church. We will enjoy rapturous celebration as the bride of Christ in the eternal kingdom.

Paul P. Enns

#22. On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat.

Paul P. Enns

#23. If this Jesus is God's answer, what is the question? Paul eventually came to the conclusion that God was answering a question that gets at the core of not simply the Jewish drama, but the human drama, a question that no one was yet asking in quite the same way.

Peter Enns

#24. During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration.

Paul P. Enns

#25. There is no higher "law" to be obeyed than the law of love. That, at the end of the day, is what it means to follow Jesus.

Peter Enns

#26. Reading the Bible responsibly and respectfully today means learning what it meant for ancient Israelites to talk about God the way they did, and not pushing alien expectations onto texts written long ago and far away.

Peter Enns

#27. Grace grows best in winter.

Peter Enns

#28. God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.

Paul P. Enns

#29. There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.

Paul P. Enns

#30. Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

Paul P. Enns

#31. I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace.

James Enns

#32. Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

Peter Enns

#33. In heaven..we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death ... Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth ... ageless.

Paul P. Enns

#34. The Adam story, then, is not simply about the past. It's about Israel's present brought into the past - even as far past as the beginning of the human drama itself.

Peter Enns

#35. Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones ... we can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

Paul P. Enns

#36. If, in full conversation with the biblical and extrabiblical evidence, we can adjust our expectations about how the Bible should behave, we can begin to move beyond the impasse of the liberal/conservative debates of the last several generations.

Peter Enns

#37. Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.

Peter Enns

#38. Jesus was God's climax to Israel's story, but he was not bound to that story. He pushed at its boundaries, transformed it, and at times left parts of it behind.

Peter Enns

#39. Still, shifting my thinking on the Bible did not mean I was losing my faith in God. In fact, I had the growing sense that God was inviting me down this path, encouraging it even.

Peter Enns

#40. Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.

Paul P. Enns

#41. It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Paul P. Enns

#42. When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.

Peter Enns

#43. Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

Paul P. Enns

#44. Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth ... Heaven is our true home.

Paul P. Enns

#45. Every believer departing this old earth ... immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself.

Paul P. Enns

#46. looking for fights - encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it - is pathological.

Peter Enns

#47. It is wholly incomprehensible to think that thousands of years ago God would have felt constrained to speak in a way that would be meaningful only to Westerners several thousand years later. To do so borders on modern, Western arrogance.

Peter Enns

#48. Paul would agree, to a certain extent. He did not think that Jesus was the founder of a new religion, rather the concluding, surprise chapter to Israel's story.

Peter Enns

#49. Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

Paul P. Enns

#50. the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.

Peter Enns

#51. When you read the Bible on its own terms, you discover that it doesn't behave itself like a holy rulebook should.

Peter Enns

#52. The Bible is not a Christian owner's manual but a story - a diverse story of God and how his people have connected with him over the centuries, in changing circumstances and situations.

Peter Enns

#53. Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather ... heaven is near in another realm.

Paul P. Enns

#54. The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

Peter Enns