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The Shack
by Wm. Paul Young
by Wm. Paul Young
Debbi's review
bookshelves: faith, fiction, book-club, audio, read-in-2008, waste-of-time
Apr 06, 2016
bookshelves: faith, fiction, book-club, audio, read-in-2008, waste-of-time
Read in December, 2008
I had to read this for book club and I did not like it. Bad theology wrapped up in a sappy soap opera type book.
I don't disagree with the message that God loves us and wants a relationship with us, but this book is so full of pot-holes and misinterpretations that renders it useless:
The Jesus character says: “My life was not meant to be an example to be copied....It is a means for your independence to be killed”.
Huh?? What Bible is the author reading? What about St. Paul telling us to be imitators of Christ. Is that really the reason for Christ's death on the cross?
It's also pretty obvious the author has trouble with authority of any kind, but most especially Church authority. It just made me wonder who has hurt him so deeply that he just throws out the baby with the bathwater.
That is just a snippet of what is so terribly wrong with this book. It is not worth the time or $$ to read. Instead get Athanasius' On the Incarnation or St. Irenaeus' Against Heresies or any other Church Father and dig deep into the well of Christian writings that have stood the test of time.
If there had been a 1/2 star option I would have given it that.
I don't disagree with the message that God loves us and wants a relationship with us, but this book is so full of pot-holes and misinterpretations that renders it useless:
The Jesus character says: “My life was not meant to be an example to be copied....It is a means for your independence to be killed”.
Huh?? What Bible is the author reading? What about St. Paul telling us to be imitators of Christ. Is that really the reason for Christ's death on the cross?
It's also pretty obvious the author has trouble with authority of any kind, but most especially Church authority. It just made me wonder who has hurt him so deeply that he just throws out the baby with the bathwater.
That is just a snippet of what is so terribly wrong with this book. It is not worth the time or $$ to read. Instead get Athanasius' On the Incarnation or St. Irenaeus' Against Heresies or any other Church Father and dig deep into the well of Christian writings that have stood the test of time.
If there had been a 1/2 star option I would have given it that.
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Jan 07, 2009 11:45PM
I couldn't agree with you more, Debbi. Your post sums up my thoughts of the book totally.
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We ae not to copy Christ life, we are to work and stive to react as he reacted, to love as he loved, to be like him, but not to copy his life, but his emotions and faith in the Father.
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The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins out of sympathy for us. Yet the New Testament view is that He took our sin on Himself not because of sympathy, but because of His identification with us. He was “made. . . to be sin. . . .” Our sins are removed because of the death of Jesus, and the only explanation for His death is His obedience to His Father, not His sympathy for us. We are acceptable to God not because we have obeyed, nor because we have promised to give up things, but because of the death of Christ, and for no other reason. We say that Jesus Christ came to reveal the fatherhood and the lovingkindness of God, but the New Testament says that He came to take “away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). -Chambers
I read this years ago and posted a long critique on the SL forums. Despised it.
