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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
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 The Shock July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Shock was that it didn't transform my belief or relationship with the Lord Jesus and Our Father in Heaven by His Holy Spirit.
The Shock was how far short it fell in expressing the incredible, infinite, sacrificial, jealous, passionate, robust God-sized love and devotion the Lord has for us and how He has poured out that love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit given to us so we can love Him back and others with that same gigantic genuine unconditional wholehearted love.
The Shock was that God already said He was to be described and known by humanity as Father, Son and Spirit (He, never It or She). God prefers to be known and revealed in masculine gender for His Own reasons. I respect that.
The Shock was not knowing why Young calls God 'Elousia'? Is it combo of El (Hebrew for God) and ousia (Greek for essence/being)? Why he transmorphs from Aunt Jemimah to Uncle Ben? Or why jesus is never addressed as Lord even though that's what the Bible says? Or why the spirit is given the feminine name of a river in India 'Sarayu'?
The Shock was the claim that the Triune God is our servant.
Ths Shock was not having jesus appear the way He does in Revelation, causing the Apostle John to fall down in rapt worship and utter reverence and holy fear. I never noticed Mack worshipping the Lord Jesus at all.
The Shock was God portrayed as 3 separate people of different races and genders, making sure Africa, No.America, Asia were represented. So as not to neglect Latin America, Sophia was added to the mix as some mysterious personification of Wisdom from Proverbs 8? What about Europe? Where was Europa or Philia from Greece?
The Shock was no Bible understanding of the Triune God from Revelation:
"Grace and peace to you from Him (the Lord God Almighty, Alpha and Omega) Who is and Who was and Who is to come, as well as from the Sevenfold Holy Spirit before God's throne, as well as from Jesus Christ Who is the faithful witness firstborn from the dead and the rule of earthkings."
"To Him Who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a Kingdom, priests to serve His God and Father - to Him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. Look, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all the earthpeoples will mourn because of Him."
The Shock was jesus' alleged claim that he is not Christian. Then, why should any Christ-follower bother being Christian as the Bible says?
The Shock was jesus never called for Mack to Repent, when the Lord Jesus began His ministry with "Repent, believe the Good News; Repent or you will perish" and ended His ministry with "Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline, so be earnest and Repent."
The Shock was no explanation of what exactly and why the Lord Jesus lived a sinless life, sweat drops of blood in Gethsemane, died on the cross shedding His innocent blood under the Father's Wrath - My God, My God, Why have You forsaken Me?
The Shock was no mention of the Lord Jesus' mission purpose to His followers: "open the eyes of Gentiles & Jews, turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, so they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those set apart as holy by faith in Me...Repent from sin and turn to God and prove your repentance by your behavior"
The Shock was wondering where Judgment Day comes in. "Come you blessed of My Father, take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you since the world's creation...Depart from Me you accursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and demons..then they will go away to eternal punishment but the righteous to eternal life."
What did the Lord Jesus and John Baptist say in John 3?
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save the world through Him. Whoever puts faith in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not trusted in the Name of God's only brought-forth-in-flesh Son.."
"..Whoever believes in God's Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not enjoy eternal life, for God's wrath remains on him."
The Shack was a Shock to true Christian trust in the Lord Jesus, as subchristian idolatry. What does the letter of First John say about antichrist spirits? Read for yourself, if you are up to it and have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit says to the churches.
The Apostle John warned us in advance, "Dear children, keep yourselves from idols."
shack July 6, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is about a fellow whoes daughter is murdered and he goes into depression. One day he gets an invitation to meet God at the shack where his daughter was murdered. We go with him and meet God (a black woman), as well as Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Over the weekend visit several miraculous visions occur with insights into God's plan. It is grossly arrogant for anyone to write a novel where he expresses the thoughts of God and Jesus, directly from the lips of God. But by doing so, Mr. Young's book becomes a replacement text for the Bible. According to Mr. Young, there is a new ethos from God. Succinctly put, we are all children of God and no matter what we do it is in God's Plan for us to forgive everyone for everything they ever did. Wow! There is one Sci-Fi depicted miracle where the father of the murdered child is asked to judge others. He can't, and, as the author tells us (using God as his spokesman), we shouldn't. We should not judge persons from other cultures, or persons who may harm us or our family. There should be no judgements in God's universe. We are all one world. I am a Christian, and was upset that the book stated there are no standards or judgements. There are no rules, and even the Ten Commandments are pointless, since there are no judgements to be made against those who violate them. So, why have God at all. This is a non-Christian book. It is written by a postmodern who will not recognize that Christian values of honesty, integrity, good behavior, accountability, punishment, and redemption actually work to create stable societies and a stable world. There are rules. The book is written in a purile way with the characters eating all the time, with food that is ambrosia all the time. It is silly. The depiction of people eating is the refuge of an author who has to way to express the interplay of ideas between characters. Anyone can write about a good ham sandwich. This is the only book I have ever read that after reading it I have wanted my money back.
 Nice story July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read alot of the reviews for this book and I would just like to say its a story, not scripture. My hope for this book is that someone who does not know God will begin their journey with Him because they found this book enlightening or funny or interesting. Nothing we read outside of the Bible is a true representation of God, but may help those that have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour begin their journey with Him.
 This book touched me on a level nothing has in years! July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are not enough beautiful words in my mind to describe this book.
I want to buy it for everyone I know. My deepest wish is that this book will become a film to touch so many more lives! I envisioned it on every level.
If all the world had this understanding of God there would be a GOD Revolution of such magnitude that the Godless would fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness.
I will re read this book and keep it as my lesson in forgiveness.
Thank you William Paul Young for writing it.
You have blessed one life for sure!
The Shack by William P Young July 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I thought that it was a Christian based book. I was very disappointed in it. To me it was nothing but New Age and Hinduism and I felt like it contradicted the Bible on several points.
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