[Apologetics] FW: Up in flames: Melting false teachings of 'The Shack'

Art Kelly akelly at americantarget.com
Mon May 24 11:05:34 EDT 2010 

I've not read The Shack and have no opinion about it.  I'm forwarding
this message from WorldNetDaily to you for any comments you may have on
the book or/and the message.
 
Art

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Blaze of Glory
Theological professor takes torch to 'blasphemous doctrine'
of bestseller embraced as truth by countless Christians 
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Burning Down The Shack
<http://superstore.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_
ID=115&ITEM_ID=3673&ref1=email&ref2-052410Burning> Millions of
Evangelical Christians are among the masses who've embraced William Paul
Young's "The Shack" as though it were gospel. Even three years since its
release, "The Shack" has remained on numerous bestseller lists for more
than 100 weeks - a claim no other book can make.

Yet it is infused with counterfeit Christianity, argues "Burning Down
'The Shack': How the 'Christian' Bestseller is Deceiving Millions,"
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Worse, says author James De Young, its depiction of God as an African
woman who suffered Christ's crucifixion - and the book's exclusion of
any existence of Satan and hell - represent just some of its many
dangerous deceptions.

If such deceptions, which upend biblical teachings on sin, redemption,
salvation and damnation, go unchallenged, says De Young, this "feel-good
novel" could prove terribly divisive and destructive to millions of
Christians.

"The Shack" has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. A film
version is reportedly in the works.

"'The Shack' presents a depiction of God that changes, 'the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,'" said
Joseph Farah, publisher and CEO of WND Books, citing Romans 1:23. "But
Paul Young also offers a warped portrayal of the Trinity, denies the
supreme divinity of Jesus Christ, diminishes the realities of sin
without redemption and shrugs off damnation.

"Christian leaders can no longer countenance this cancerous
manipulation," continued Farah. "I'm heartened that Jim De Young is
exposing and opposing it."

De Young brings some interesting credentials to his critique. A New
Testament Language and Literature professor at Western Seminary in
Portland, Ore., he's also a former longtime colleague of Paul Young, and
was his  Dr. James
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Portland-area neighbor when Young wrote "The Shack." In 1997, De Young
and Young even co-founded a Christian think tank, called M3 Forum, and
for the next seven years they discussed and probed topics, doctrine and
problems facing the church as it approached the New Millennium. 

"It's often said that one can understand a book better by knowing the
author," said De Young, who wrote "Burning Down 'The Shack'"
<http://superstore.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_
ID=115&ITEM_ID=3673&ref1=email&ref2-052410Burning>  to "expose the
greatest deception to blindside the church in the last 200 years!"

As De Young explains, while writing "The Shack," Young, a victim of
child molestation, had recently embraced "universal reconciliation."
Identified as far back as the sixth century as heresy, universal
reconciliation emphasizes that God's nature in essence renders him "too
loving" to let anyone who's refused to seek forgiveness and salvation
actually suffer the eternal consequences of sin.

As a seminary professor for 34 years with degrees from Dallas Seminary,
Talbot Theological Seminary, and Moody Bible Institute, De Young
delivers a chapter-by-chapter evaluation of more than 15 heresies within
"The Shack."

He also takes unique creative license and shows readers stories and
instruction in scripture that would have helped Paul Young's fictional
character, Mack, find the forgiveness and restoration he so desperately
sought - but was not offered.

"Unfortunately, mass acceptance of a viewpoint that denies the existence
of evil and the costs and consequences of unbelief isn't surprising,"
said Farah. "As Americans, we're only now beginning to pay the costs of
living as though our choices carry no consequences. As Christians, we're
charged with alerting a fallen world to the Truth of eternal
consequences. Jim does that by relying on the strength of God's Word to
overpower Young's blasphemous manipulations."

Author James B. DeYoung
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