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I lift my pencil in praise
And tho that may sound funny
Praise can open up my sleepy heart
And make this whole house sunny!!
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The Shack mocks the Trinity—satan has been trying to make God a female for centuries—we know Dan Brown’s attempt. The Shack goes against the Bible—the Bible is never mentioned as a way to know God. This is very sutle. The book is filled with idolatry—it speaks for the Trinity.
“God the Father is a black woman named Papa, and her dialogue in places sounds like a character from Gone with the Wind: “Guess that’s jes’ the way I is… Sho ‘nuff!” (119). Papa engages in bathroom humour (88, 121), and there’s a scene where she and Jesus bump into each other in the kitchen, spill a bowl of sauce, and go through a slapstick routine while cleaning it up (104-05). I’m just stodgy enough to think this is not an appropriate portrayal of the God before whom the angels in heaven hide their face (Isaiah 6:1-3).”
This clearly places God in the wrong position—that is what I meant by the line in my poem. The shack is different because it actually depicts the persons of the Trinity as characters, and puts words in their mouth that purport to present theological truth. “The book has an incorrect view of the Trinity. The scars on Papa’s wrists, showing that she suffered with Jesus on the cross, point to an early Trinitarian heresy called patripassianism-a view that misunderstands the distinction of roles among the persons of the Trinity.” “The Bible presents the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as fully equal, and yet submitting in specific ways, the Son to the Father and the Spirit to the Father and the Son. The Shack sees any such submission or obedience as inherently bad.
One thing that I have noticed is that instead of using the word “sin” Young uses a term like “independence”. Why does he abandon sin—this is common in the 21st century…much more can be said…Take care.