[Apologetics] FW: How 'The Shack' seduced evangelicals

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Art Kelly wrote:

> Undergirding "The Shack," De Young told WND in an interview, is an
> age-old heresy - universal reconciliation - that diminishes the work of
> Jesus on the cross and the holiness and justice of God by asserting that
> everyone eventually will be saved from eternal damnation. 

As I understand it, the Catholic position is that there is a logical
possibility of Hell (or else the graphic warnings are vapid), but 
it is orthodox to hope for near universal reconciliation.  (The Antichrist,
False Prophet, and Satan are explicitly portrayed entering the Lake of Fire.)
It only becomes a heresy when insisting that everyone *must* be saved.

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