{"id":802,"date":"2008-02-27T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/27\/the-shack-is-the-message-outhouse.html"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:35:28","slug":"the-shack-is-the-message-outhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/the-shack-is-the-message-outhouse.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Shack” is “The Message” outhouse."},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Shack” is not about a basketball player it is a book that twists the Gospel. If you are buying into the message of this book thought up in an outhouse you are buying into damnable heresy. The endorsement on the cover of this heretical book is from Eugene Peterson, author of “The Message”. “This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ did for his. It’s that good!” Eugene Peterson, author of The Message (Front cover endorsement)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I for one am fed up with those who quote “The Message<\/strong>” as if it were the Bible. It is not. It is nothing but a very bad paraphrase. Stop quoting “The Message” on your media programs or I will turn you off for good. Stop quoting “The Message” from your pulpits or I will walk out of your church. Stop reading from “The Message” in your Bible studies or I will not attend. Why? Because Eugene Peterson popular paraphrase of the Bible is twisted. He has no biblical discernment, his bad paraphrase of the world of God is not the word of God no matter how popular it has become. If you cannot use a literal version of the Bible to get across your teachings perhaps you should not be teaching at all. Now Eugene Peterson is endorsing even more twisted writings for your deception<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having said that, those with ears to hear really do need to know what is wrong with “The Shack” <\/strong>by William P. Young<\/strong> that is now widely accepted in postmodern churches. Read the article about this book I have a few quotes from it below.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deceived by a counterfeit “Jesus”: The twisted “truths” of The Shack & A Course in Miracles – CWN<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
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“Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists or
\nMormons, Baptists or Muslims…. I have no desire to make them Christian<\/strong>, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters.\u201d
\n–The Shack’s “Jesus.” [1,p.182]
\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Shack calls for a similar denial of reality. Yet countless pastors and church leaders are delighting in its message. By ignoring (or redefining) sin and guilt, they embrace an inclusive but counterfeit “Christianity” that draws crowds but distorts the Bible. Discounting Satan as well, they weaken God’s warnings about deception. No wonder His armor for today’s spiritual war became an early victim of this spreading assault on Truth. Roger Oakland, author of Faith Undone, hinted at this transformation in his article “My Trip to the Rethink Conference:”<\/p>\n

“For nearly two thousand years, most professing Christians have seen the Bible as the foundation for the Christian faith. The overall view at the Rethink Conference, however, is that Christianity, as we have known it, has run its course and must be replaced…. Speakers insisted that Christianity must be re-thought and re-invented if the name of Jesus Christ is going to survive here on planet earth.”[3]<\/p>\n

No room for the historical Jesus?<\/p>\n

Must we reimagine God to make Him fit the rising universal church?<\/p>\n

That seems to be the aim of The Shack’s female “God.”<\/strong> Here she is speaking to the main character, Mackenzie (Mack for short):<\/p>\n

“For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning.”[1,p.93]<\/p>\n

Full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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read <\/strong>Dr. Norman L. Geisler and Bill Roach Critical review of The Shack<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“The Shack” is not about a basketball player it is a book that twists the Gospel. If you are buying into the message of this book thought up in an outhouse you are buying into damnable heresy. The endorsement on the cover of this heretical book is from Eugene Peterson, author of “The Message”. “This […]<\/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":[46,3,88,18,98],"tags":[342,56,57,81,51],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-discernment","category-emergingemergent-church","category-post-modern","tag-apostasy","tag-emergent","tag-heresy","tag-new-age","tag-postmodern"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}