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| The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $7.15
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1993 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 God outside our box July 7, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book really helps one see God the Father, Jesus Christ the son, and the Holy Spirit in a real way. Although it will make you cry and laugh, it also helps one search your own heart and attitude towards God's creation, even sinful man. We cried a lot as the story unfolded hurts in our own family, but it was a stepping stone towards understanding the sovereignty of God in a real way.
Really Makes You Think July 7, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was a great fiction and really makes you think about your relationship with God and how personal God is.
 The Shock July 7, 2008
27 out of 38 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 a make-believe god too chummy, casual and manmade to reflect what the Bible says about His genuine familiarity and intimacy with those He deeply loves and relates to. It did not inspire worship and abject adoration from Mack nor readers, just amusement, curiosity and chuckles along with a few sentimented heart tugs. The cheapened, flippant portrayal with mortal foibles, humanisms and quirks reflects the author more than the real Supreme Being, the Wonderful Majestic Glory Living Godhead. Putting each Divine Person of the Trinity in costume with man-wisdom dialog will be accountable on Judgment Day. How does God feel?
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 ruler 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 - impostors, phonies, manmade ideas, faux imitations."
shack July 6, 2008
23 out of 32 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
3 out of 5 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.
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