{"id":1175,"date":"2008-08-19T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/19\/parallels-between-the-shack-god-and-aas-higher-power.html"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T20:15:15","slug":"parallels-between-the-shack-god-and-aas-higher-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/parallels-between-the-shack-god-and-aas-higher-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Parallels between The Shack God and A.A.’s higher power."},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Shack”, by William P. Young is still a hugely popular and very deceptive book that is likely to become a movie. Those that believe there is a Christian message or theme in this book are totally deceived and must not believe biblical doctrine themselves at all. The book presents another God, another Christ, and another path to salvation. “The Shack” really promotes “New Age” all paths Universalism much like A.A. which itself was founded by a man who got messages from the occult. The book is blasphemous toward God presuming to speak for God while actually promoting a “Queen of Heaven” type God that does not exist.<\/p>\n

This pluralistic theme where many paths lead to the same God is now being promoted everywhere thanks to A.A., other 12 step programs, and the postmodern redefining of Christianity by high profile religious and secular media figures. Nevertheless, no true Christian should be sucked into such an unbiblical “New Age” postmodern concept. There is only one way to the Father (not the mother) according to the teaching of the only God\/Man that ever walked the earth. That way is only through Jesus Christ as He is defined in the Bible and not as Jesus is redefined in the light of “New Age” demonic darkness.<\/p>\n

Any Christian leader promoting “The Shack” should be immediately removed from their position because they are promoting doctrines of demons and the lie of the adversary that leads people to Hell.<\/p>\n

Christian Worldview Network – Brannon Howse – The Shack is A.A.’s higher power.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the author, the god of The Shack dwells in everybody, and apparently does not condemn any to eternal punishment\u2014or, as The Shack would address this, \u201cShe does not punish anyone.\u201d The novel\u2019s \u201cchrist\u201d is the \u201cbest way\u201d to salvation, but apparently not the only way.<\/p>\n

What about Alcoholics Anonymous? The A.A. Big Book states, \u201cWe found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men. When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God.\u201d[19] According to the A.A. Big Book, God is \u201cdeep down within us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus are the seeds of the New Age planted in the soil of both The Shack and Alcoholics Anonymous. The tentacles of various heresies are reaching out and linking. The false \u201cchrist\u201d of The Shack seems poised to be welcomed into, or serve as a catalyst for, emergent\/contemplative\/12 Step Spirituality.<\/p>\n

Many Christians have superimposed their beliefs upon The Shack, supposing it a novel written by a Biblical Christian. As James De Young and others have pointed out, this is not necessarily the case. Over the decades, many Christians have also jackhammered their God into AA\u2019s anti-Biblical system<\/p>\n

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“The Shack”, by William P. Young is still a hugely popular and very deceptive book that is likely to become a movie. Those that believe there is a Christian message or theme in this book are totally deceived and must not believe biblical doctrine themselves at all. The book presents another God, another Christ, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,88,97,22,98,29],"tags":[342,352,56,57,58,81,85,99,51,68],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-discernment","category-false-christs","category-new-agenew-spirituality","category-post-modern","category-psychology-in-the-church","tag-apostasy","tag-discernment","tag-emergent","tag-heresy","tag-movements","tag-new-age","tag-new-spirituality","tag-pagan","tag-postmodern","tag-universalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-iX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}