The recent NYT bestselling book, The Shack, is an outright attack on Christianity. This book was lent to my wife by a friend, with a good recommendation. She read it and pointed out several things along the way to me. My assessment is that it is an attack on Christianity, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
This novel repeatedly, and systematically, undermines the God of the Bible, Jesus, the Trinity, and many other core doctrines of the Church. This is not a mere re-interpretation of the Biblical doctrines from scripture in an entertaining way, the statements and claims in the book directly contradict statements in the Bible. Statements about who God is, how we interact with Him, our own Salvation are re-defined into something new and different. It may sound similar, but after you re-define all the terms and relationships, it undermines the Christian worldview. This is not the Jesus of the Bible, the same as Allah is not the God of the Bible.
I have read one book on New Age and listened to a couple CDs; enough to recognize that this is not a Christian book, but a New Age book with the purpose of replacing Christianity in the cultural mainstream. It is a shame that any Christian bookstore or online seller would sell this as a Christian book. It is a shame that any pastor would recommend this book, or even purchase multiple copies for those in his shepherding.
Anyone who reads the Bible on a regular (nearly daily) basis should be able to see right through this story for they are firmly grounded in the Word of God, "thoroughly equipped for every good work". If you are not regularly reading God's Word, you will be more likely to be deceived by the "fine-sounding arguments" and led astray.
Spread the word, this book is as anti-Christian as they come!
