Christians Embracing Heresy???

Have you heard about the book The Shack, by William P. Young? This book is the hot new book in Christianity, it is being endorsed by some pretty big names in the church, and it is promoting heresy.

Eugene Peterson, author of The Message said:

When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of "The Shack." This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" did for his. It's that good!

Wow! As good as Pilgrim's Progress??? That's pretty high praise for a book that portrays God as a woman and teaches the heretical view of the Trinity knows as Modalism. We need to exercise some discernment and not embrace every new thing that comes our way, and we need to know the Bible so we can see when something is not right.

Tim Challies, in his review of this book, wrote:

Because of the sheer volume of error and because of the importance of the doctrines reinvented by the author, I would encourage Christians, and especially young Christians, to decline this invitation to meet with God in The Shack. It is not worth reading for the story and certainly not worth reading for the theology.

This is good advice.

If you want some more information about this book, here is a video from Mark Driscoll talking about the problems in The Shack, and he nails it.

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