Good reading material... The Shack

[Texastrophy]

If you're looking for something to read while you're in the deer stand, fishin' or just vegetating around the house, check out 'The Shack', by William P Young.

[RdRdrFan]

A friend of mine gave it to me. I started it but couldn't get more than halfway through before switching books. She assured me that I would have liked it if I would have stuck with it. I'll try again.

[Jason]

Be very careful of The Shack. The theology laid out as the story unfolds is nothing short of heresy.
A more than generous review if your interested.

http://www.challies.com/media/The_Shack.pdf

The emotional power of The Shack depends upon a
face-to-face encounter between God and man. God the
Father is represented as Papa, an African-American
woman; Jesus is in the form of a man of Middle-Eastern
descent and the Holy Spirit is portrayed as an Asian
woman named Sarayu. Yet the Bible is clear that God
cannot and must not be portrayed in an image. It is impossible
to make the creator a part of His creation and the Bible
clearly and repeatedly forbids us from even attempting to do
this. “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship
in spirit and truth,” says Jesus in John 4:24. The third of the
Ten Commandments likewise forbids attempting to make
any visual portrayal of God. To worship such an image,
to acknowledge it as God or even to pretend it is
God is to commit the sin of idolatry. It is to worship
a creation rather than the Creator

Salvation discussed in The Shack:

What is clear, though, is that the God of The Shack is
not a God who could have punished His Son for the sins
of others. After all, Papa says, “Regardless of what he
felt at that moment, I never left him” (96). He is not aGod
who could have poured out upon His Son His just
wrath for sin. In fact, God does not need to punish sin
at all, says Papa. “I don’t need to punish people for sin.
Sin is its own punishment, devouring from the inside.
It’s not my purpose to punish it; it’s my joy to cure it”
(120).

Isaiah 53:10 But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

I am not saying that The Shack is a worthless piece of literature. Please be careful who you recommend this book to. Can you imagine the damage it could do in the hands of a weaker brother or sister.