http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2013/mercer110.htm

Dear John, Mercer and all Doves:

Pastor Sal did a masterful job in explaining the dangers of William P. Young's The Shack:

While we're told the book is fiction, it really is the author's beliefs and follows a religious system that most Christians would reject as heretical.  "Fiction" means untrue, but when you write a fiction book about God, it is not some harmless little story.  It's a lie about God.  I don't know how else to say it.  When you are saying things that are not true about God and you are hoping that it will change people's lives, is there something wrong with this picture?

The Shack presents a lopsided view of God as love, but not a God of justice.  A God who will not punish sin undermines the central message of the gospel: that Jesus Christ went to the cross to pay the penalty that you and I deserve.

Sal Massa           

Thanks for the post.

Best,

Steve

P.S.  Thanks again to Sandra Jean for catching the error in my Jan 7th posting.