Posted on 02/14/2017 10:42:07 AM PST by Gamecock
While agreeing with the thrust of this article, I point out that my Catholic barber excitedly told me all about the book after he read it.
Bump for later read.
I picked up “The Shack” at LAX to read during an eight hour layover. About halfway through it, I tossed it in the garbage can.
If you like tv preacher theology, you will LOVE the shack. If you read your bible on a regular basis, you will detest it.
The Shack — The Missing Art of Evangelical Discernment
The Shack — The Missing Art of Evangelical Catholic Discernment
I figured if Oprah and the like were so thrilled with it, it’s something I should avoid like the plague. She has done more to distract and sidetrack many christians and those seeking Jesus and God of the bible.
I’ve had numerous christian friends tell me I should read it, but I told them they were letting twisted thoughts in their head and would do better to just read the bible. It tells us to keep watch of what enters our eyes and ears and take captive every thought and run it by God to see what is in line with Him or not.
"Punishment" is not God's currency.
Same here; I couldn’t get past the first couple chapters.
Tossed it in the garbage.
I loved The Shack...it wasn’t written as a theology book, it’s a novel. And as a novel, it is one of the most riveting and emotion evoking novels I’ve ever read.
No one takes a microscope to the theology of the Chronicles of Narnia, or the LOTR books. Les Miserables, in my opinion, is the most encompassing
story of law and grace I’ve ever read...but we don’t examine the minutia of
the story to see if Hugo was theologically sound. They are, what they are,
books, and none of these authors have ever written their books with the
thought of passing muster for it’s theology.
I won’t see the movie, at least not at the theater. I would be a blubbering
mess if I had to see the depiction of Mack’s grief, and eventual healing.
Genesis 19:15 - As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Ezra 9:13 - And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
Isaiah 10:12 - When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
Isaiah 10:3 - What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 26:21 - For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Jeremiah 5:9 - Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jeremiah 9:25 - “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—
Ezekiel 21:25 - And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
Matthew 25:46 - And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
2 Thessalonians 1:9 - They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Jude 1:7 - just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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There’s more...
Sometimes I think I need this stamp. Don't want any of my survivors to get the wrong idea.
I have a chunk of my library I'm going to have to make sure is properly labeled. Book of Mormon is there, through stuff on Marian apparations, on to Osteen, and Rob't Schuler's self esteem reformation book, and others.
Oooo...Gotta get me one of those!
None of the examples you provided portrayed God as being a women.
Turgid, infantile, and simplistic.
In a word...ANNOYING! LOL!
In Narnia, Jesus is portrayed as an animal.
Good idea. I’ve seen books in the library of friends/family members that shocked me and later wondered if your sentiment may have applied and I didn’t interpret the situation correctly.
The Shack also portrays God as being a man and explains why He allowed Mack to see a woman portrayal of Him in the beginning of their encounter.
But that’s neither here nor there. It’s still a novel, fiction. Gandalf and Aslan are often seen as representations of Jesus in Tolkien and Lewis’s stories, but Gandalf was a wizard and Aslan was a literal animal (I know Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, but not an actual Lion in the Scriptures.)
I don’t discard those books because of that, I don’t read them for my theology lesson...I read them as they were written, as works of fiction.
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