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The Shack" Has Me Very, Very Disturbed!!

Has anyone here read "The Shack"?

I am so upset over that book!!! It's riding the bestseller list, going to be made into a movie and it is teaching false beliefs about Christianity.

There is one page that claims you can be saved WITHOUT BELIEVING IN JESUS CHRIST that has me especially upset. Jesus said, "I am The Way, the truth and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me..." There IS no other "way" except Him!!!

On another page it claims God does NOT want you to "slavishly follow His Will..." Huh??? What happened to, "Thy Will Be Done"?? This is so, so wrong! And it's so frightening that it's selling like hotcakes! I'm glad I didn't spend a PENNY on it, checked it out of the library -- I don't want to contribute a DIME to that author's heresy!

Another page claims you should NOT try to "be like Jesus." Whaaaaaat??? As the name of the famous Thomas Kempis book goes, "Imitation of Christ," we ARE supposed to try to "model" Jesus, to constantly strive for His goodness and Holiness (even though, obviously, we can never be that good).

This book is leading people astray in so many ways. It breaks my heart that it is a bestseller. And the most awful part is that it CLAIMS to be a "Christian book" and a "great work." Give me a break!!!!!!

The author should be ashamed of himself!!!

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old comment by Panz

oh noes, the books will warp my sheltered homeskooled childrens

"There is one page that claims you can be saved WITHOUT BELIEVING IN JESUS CHRIST "
Believe it or not, people do believe that Jesus didn't mean him as himself, but him as the example of what to be like

"Another page claims you should NOT try to "be like Jesus." Whaaaaaat???"
Read above, following, sure, trying to completely mimic, you tend to lose sight of other things in your life, like your mentallity and rational

"On another page it claims God does NOT want you to "slavishly follow His Will..." Huh??? What happened to, "Thy Will Be Done"??"
yes, blindly follow, become a sheep and ask no questions, just obey

"This book is leading people astray in so many ways. It breaks my heart that it is a bestseller. And the most awful part is that it CLAIMS to be a "Christian book" and a "great work." Give me a break!!!!!! "
Copy and paste response from the DaVincie Code

"checked it out of the library -- I don't want to contribute a DIME to that author's heresy! "
btw, if you pay taxes, you already have spent a dime on it psycho

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There is one page that claims you can be saved WITHOUT BELIEVING IN JESUS CHRIST that has me especially upset. Jesus said, "I am The Way, the truth and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me..." There IS no other "way" except Him!!!

And there's another passage where Jesus equates himself with the poor and downtrodden of the world. Maybe coming to heaven through Jesus is the only way, but there's a lot more ways to Jesus than you think. Remember, the sheep in that parable did not believe they were helping Jesus when they were feeding the hungry and clothing the naked.

On another page it claims God does NOT want you to "slavishly follow His Will..." Huh??? What happened to, "Thy Will Be Done"??

Yeah, but wouldn't it be better to willingly, cheerfully, and intelligently do God's will rather than slavishly without thought or emotion?

old comment by Illuminatalie

Lots of punctuation, but to be fair, it's all at the end of sentences.

There is one page that claims you can be saved WITHOUT BELIEVING IN JESUS CHRIST that has me especially upset
That would mean that the millions of people that lived in Africa and never heard of northern civilization, let alone Jesus, are NOT going to be horribly tortured forever and ever simply for existing? That the atheists who were killed in rescue efforts trying to to help others were not instantly transported to 'molten flames'? Perish the thought! They DESERVE it, just like you DESERVE to live in a country without real hunger, with access to modern medicine and anaesthetics.

On another page it claims God does NOT want you to "slavishly follow His Will...
The way you have no love in your heart and push a gospel of black hatred that would make Attila the Hun step back? The way you live like a prince in the richest country this world has ever known, and define hardship as "doing without things that our grandparents never dreamed of having", all the while denouncing everyone who isn't fit for your country club as subhuman?

I don't want to contribute a DIME to that author's heresy!
I didn't know that heresies were like trust funds.

Another page claims you should NOT try to "be like Jesus." Whaaaaaat???
What is wrong with people like you? Do you really think there is a comparison between a poor itinerant preacher who went about telling people to love each other, forgive their enemies, no matter what, and value humanity above wealth and prestige, and a bunch of ignorant, selfish nouveaux-rich middle class morons who spend half their time screaming hatred at whorish whores and the other half getting backrubs from their gay prostitutes? How can I compare someone who was willing to die rather than commit violence, to spiteful bullies who have a long history of innovative torture and who are currently pushing wars where millions die as an acceptable punishment for everyone else for existing? Calling you a piece of shit is an insult to shit. That piece of shit my cat just kicked out of his box (why do cats have to spread their damn litter around) is actually a better person than you. Well... maybe that's going too far. It's less offensive than you. That's all.

It breaks my heart that it is a bestseller. And the most awful part is that it CLAIMS to be a "Christian book" and a "great work."
You have no heart to break, you creepy hatemonger. The most awful part is you CLAIM to be a "Christian" and a "good person".

The author should be ashamed of himself!!!
Waiting4Jesus should be ashamed of itself!!!!!!!!

old comment by Illuminatalie

The Shack, I skimmed through it one night when it was the only book in the house, it's a version of Christianity that says God loves everyone, with less focus on 'eternal punishment' and more on 'universal atonement', I guess. The main plot seems to be - a man is on a camping trip, a serial child rapist kidnaps one of his children and murders him, and the man is left feeling responsible for the loss of his child (in the most horrible way imaginable). I seem to remember him meeting God and Jesus, and God was a black woman. The book tries to answer how this could happen, what is at the core of evil, what forgiveness and trust does and does not mean, what we should not blame ourselves for, etc. And implies that even the most vicious hatred and cruelty did not start that way - that once upon a time, Hitler and Genghis Khan were children that delighted in loving and being loved, and what seems insurmountably evil to humans is possible for God to redeem. I can see how a fundy, cumming in their pants over getting to revenge and torture something they despise (let alone the heresy of saying God is a woman, and a black one at that!), would view this book with absolute horror.