Beware The Shack

Beware The Shack

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It is a quite heartwarming and satisfying work of fiction. As a work of heresy, however, I was sorely disappointed.

While on a camping trip, his youngest daughter, Missy, was kidnapped and brutally killed inside the run-down shack. He goes to the shack to investigate, and this is where most of the story takes place. It turns out the note is from God and Mack soon comes face to face with The Trinity. The author portrays the Trinity in a unique way.

I understand that some readers will be uncomfortable with this portrayal, especially with God The Father as an African American woman and the Holy Spirit as a mysterious Asian woman named Sarayu. This depiction is one of the things that many critics have deemed heretical. But I found these to be not only interesting artistic choices, but actually enlightening in a spiritual sense as well. Was one of these people God? But two women and a man and none of them white?

Then again, why had he naturally assumed that God would be white? He knew his mind was rambling, so he focused on the one question he most wanted answered.

Why should we be concerned whether God is portrayed as male or female when, in fact, Scripture tells us that He is neither? God is Spirit and has no gender, even though the Bible often uses the pronoun "He" for God and describes him as a Father-figure.

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Young offers a detailed explanation of this in the book. The problem is that the author is attempting to describe the indescribable. How should one depict the Trinity? Where would one even begin to describe a God that is three in one? God relates to us in the ways that we will best be able to hear Him. Wayne Jacobsen , an author who consulted on the writing of the novel and formed the company that would later publish it, wrote a blog last year to answer some of the accusations from critics of The Shack.

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He assures readers that the team of writers who helped shape the story are all committed Christians and that they strived to keep the ideas presented in the book true to Scripture. They are reworded in ways to be relevant to those reading the story, but at every point we sought to be true to the way God has revealed himself in the Bible except for the literary characterizations that move the story forward.

And yet, as De Young noted, Christians today find themselves bombarded with arguments that they need to look at everyone as a brother or sister in Christ. In fact, he said, universalism through the ages has focused on the nature of God while giving Jesus shorter shrift because of his exclusive nature.

De Young said Paul Young was far from the first to enunciate the idea of universal reconciliation. Around the third century, a few church fathers embraced the notion God cannot be subverted by lasting rebellion somewhere in the universe, so any rebellion must be reconciled with a God of love. So the movie advances this kind of thinking to a degree as never before in the history of universalism.

But De Young said those people must realize true comfort and encouragement come from Jesus, who identified with us in our sins. The only anchor of our souls is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to De Young. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Learn more about Amazon Prime.

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