Posted on 02/27/2017 3:31:30 PM PST by Maudeen
The book The Shack has sold over 25 million copies worldwide and has been translated into numerous languages, so it’s not a surprise that Hollywood has decided to cash in on its popularity with a blockbuster movie. While the book is marketed as a “Christian novel” and the movie is marketed to Christians, it simply isn’t based on Biblical Christianity. In fact, it’s full of heresy. The number of Christians who are singing its praises is evidence of the lack of discernment prevalent in American Evangelicalism. What’s even more concerning is that many Christian pastors and teachers are endorsing the book and movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at biblethumpingwingnut.com ...
Hollyweird has always missed the mark on making movies about either Jews or Christians. I think that Mel Gibson came the closest.
Chicken?
Radio?
Sugar?
CC
That was very informative. /S
A link that took me to 10 more links?
Not doing it.
My barber, the Catholic, told me just how much he loved The Shack.
Love shack ...
It’s a little old place ...
Depiction of God by actors is a violation of the second commandment?
Interesting.
Your statement may be true (I have no way of verifying it), but it does not contradict the statement you quoted from the article.
You’e WHAT!?
Tin roof...rusted!
LOL
CC
So don’t go watch it. Big whoop.
Pretty cool that God has a long history of using non-Christian people and things to advance His purpose in ways we can’t understand.
Sometimes a movie is just a movie, and a book is just a book, and marketers will do what marketers do...
Sounds like the main reason it’s being hated is that god is portrayed by a chunky black woman when everyone knows he’s an older white guy with a long gray beard....or sometimes Morgan Freeman.
I read the book and maybe at that moment it had a little impact, but it is now forgotten. Maybe it is in the subconcious, I don’t know. Sometimes I think we do have to read some things to find out what is going on. However, we must be very discerning and sort it all out. I will not see the movie as I very much disagree with all the Hollywood nonsense.
I won’t see it.
You mean She's not Whoopi Goldberg?
I received THE SHACK when it came out about 10 years ago. To be honest, the book was CREEPY. The book did not ring “true” to my beliefs.
Some call it an allegory, but allegories are rooted in truth.
I threw the book in the trash. Friends and family kept giving me the book and I kept throwing it away. I lost count of how many I tossed.
New Ageism has crept into today’s Christianity, and it is being promoted by CHRISTIAN TV, which I suspect gets a kickback from advance tickets sales in exchange for advertising.
It’s ALL about the $$$$$.
Thanks for the benefit of the doubt of another FReeper. /s
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3524814/posts
The above link has a commentary on the book and makes some points on why “The Shack” is lousy Christian theology. At the end the writer doesn’t call for book burnings or anything, but says:
“The Shack is a wake-up call for evangelical Christianity. An assessment like that offered by Timothy Beal is telling. The popularity of this book among evangelicals can only be explained by a lack of basic theological knowledge among us — a failure even to understand the Gospel of Christ. The tragedy that evangelicals have lost the art of biblical discernment must be traced to a disastrous loss of biblical knowledge. Discernment cannot survive without doctrine.”
The new testament succeeds the old.
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