The Shack Movie and Its New Age Leaven Exposed

A Church I had left was using books like the Shack for "Bible Study"? Not the Bible but these pseudo-Christianese books to study theology. Today most of the professing Church just doesn't read the word.

Heresy and Betrayal

Young contends that The Shack is much more than a fictional novel. He describes The Shack as “theology wrapped in story.” He writes:

Please don’t misunderstand me; The Shack is theology. But it is theology wrapped in story, the Word becoming flesh and living inside the blood and bones of common human experience.

This is said in spite of the fact that Young’s Shack characters and Shack “theology” frequently mock God and God’s Word with their cryptic humor and clever interplay. To be perfectly blunt, the name Judas fits right in with much of what William Paul Young is teaching. Like Judas, Young betrays Jesus Christ and biblical Christianity with his heretical Shack theology—a Shack theology where there is, among other things, no Devil and no Christ. Neither of them can be found anywhere in the whole Shack story. The Devil is never mentioned because Young would have us believe that evil and darkness “do not have any actual existence.”5 And The Shack’s “Jesus” is never identified as Christ. In fact, the name of Christ is nowhere to be found in the whole Shack story.6

The False god of The Shack

The god of The Shack, “[Your heart] is wild and beautiful and perfectly in process” (p. 138).

What does the Bible say? For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man” (Mark 7:21-23). The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

The god of The Shack, “Our final destiny is not the picture of Heaven that you have stuck in your head–you know, the image of pearly gates and streets of gold” (p. 177).
What does the Bible say? And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. (Revelation 21:21)

The god of The Shack, “I don’t do humiliation or guilt, or condemnation” (p. 223).
What does the Bible say? And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil (John 3:19). … to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God (Romans 3:19). My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation (James 3:1)

Video Warren B Smith
https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=34218
https://warrenbsmith.com/books.htm

Further Reading and Documentation
Lies Paul Young Believes About God:
https://amos37.com/lies-paul-young-believes-about-god/