Posted on 03/15/2009 3:08:57 PM PDT by Salvation
Just tell them to give it the same consideration and creedance that they would have given the “Da Vince Code”, except, sadly, some Catholics DID take that book seriously.
I remember that book, and I had a similar reaction, but I can’t for the life of me remember why, or even what it was about. A Christian but non-Catholic friend lent it to me, I started it, and almost immediately gave it back...it gave me the creeps.
I believe that's why some turn to Buddhism. Adherence to it doesn't seem to be too dependent on one's personal behavior, so one doesn't necessarily need to change it to feel good about being a Buddhist. I could be wrong, but that's the idea I've gotten from some folks.
Dad gum it, this should have had a “barf alert” on it.
I remember it, and it becamde a series of 4-5 books. It was written by a Catholic Priest, but there were parts that were borderline hertical. I beleive that it (The entire series) goes a long way to far into the the Ecumenicalism.
Just like the Cafeteria Catholics, there are plenty of Cafeteria Buddhists around. Buddhism has "rules", too.
“I have read The Shack and would encourage others to read it too. It is FICTION it is not the inspired work of God. As long as you remember that it is FICTION, you can find the nuggets you could use to walk closer with God and grow closer to the Trinity.”
I read the book on the recommendation of the pastor of our parish. He said the same thing as you did. I liked the book, and found that it really made me think. It is based on a story about a man struggling with the kidnapping and murder of his young daughter, while he was watching her. I found that part very difficult to read. I gave it to my stepmother, who hasn’t been to church in years. She loved it. Said the story about why God gave up so much to save us (his children) made her go back to church.
There isn’t really anything to fear about the book. It is a fictional account that reminds the reader about the deepness of God’s love for us, and the power of healing and forgiveness.
LOl! It’s strange, isn’t it?
**I tried to read it I really tried but I found it to be just too weird and strange.**
I don’t even want to pick it up. The book reviews tell me that much. The thing is the negative book reviews are coming from Catholic, Baptists, evangelical and other sources.
When that many people reject it — one automatically knows that it is heretical.
Our priest had brochures explaining the faults of the DaVinci Code. This next week I am going to ask him if he can find any about “The Shack.”
*8Even the most tenuous of independent Protestants should be turned away by this. **
Agreed, and it appears other Protestants agree with you too.
**For my money, comprehension of the things of God always comes at the cost of self-sacrifice and is always in line with what Scripture has already revealed. **
Amen!
That is one whacky book, and sadly my friend who leant it to me actually thought it was true until I showed her a statement from the author to the contrary.
Good summary of opposition to this book.
**How many souls will fall because of the seed in this book?**
That is why I won’t be a part of this reading group — I don’t want to face God at the moment I die and face the fact that people were led away from the Church through my silence.
Sounds like yet another attempt to trivialize and demean God and Christianity.
I love to read, and I have a library that gives me great pleasure. After I read The Shack, however, I tossed it over my shoulder, directly into the trash can. It was a collection of politically-correct cliches, strung together by verbs. This is pop-religion’s silly literature; don’t confuse it with the real thing.
**Sounds like yet another attempt to trivialize and demean God and Christianity.**
In a big way if they are also going to make a movie of it.
Actually I’ve thrown many books away in the past few years. I don’t watch Oprah but someone had told me she highly praised the book “A Course In Miracles”. Someone had given me the book as a gift.It had been sitting on my book shelf for quite sometime. It was the strangest thing. I would walk by it and think I should read that. So I picked it up and read a paragraph. The book ended up in the fire pit as well.
Which "god" that be? Any portrayal of YHWH as anything other than Who he really is is unacceptable.
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