Whats Wrong With The Shack Book?

Whats Wrong With The Shack Book?

The Shack is full of false doctrine looked past by people who are emotionally swept out into the sea of deception. They look past the truth of God's Word because they want a god of their own making, one who fails to punish for sin unrepented of.

The primary source of this bad doctrine is because the trinity of The Shack Book is not the Trinity of the Bible. Rather it is the goddess Kali.

This is the book for you if you believe in a Universal salvation without seeking forgiveness, if you want a god who loves without logic in contradicting His Word, and if you don't know or don't care about biblical truth and sound doctrine.

A Critical Review of The Shack Book
a novel by by William Paul Young
This book is nothing more than a clever re-telling of the Black Madonna heresy. The Black Madonna --Kali or the Black Queen, and her daughter Sara-la-kali ( the Black Queen in the spirit), and the finally Christ as the grown Osiris of Babylonian text.

If you read Reverend Dr Matthew Fox's article on the Black Madonna, available on his website, the coincidences are too close, then do a little research on the Cult of Sara, and the picture becomes clear. "Papa" the black female and male god/goddess, Sarayu, Sara-la-kali, and Osiris, from the Madonna and Child as Jesus.

No wonder the emergent church is moved by this work. It is classic icon worship wrapped in a veil of Christianity. The move from the concrete foundation of the Rock to the instability of a Shack on the sand.

What bothers me, as I read through the blogs and comments on the Internet is that so many people love this book!
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets."
Luke 6:26

I know that I will pick up a lot of flack for what I say in regards to this book, but I fear what I am reading in excerpts from the book. I am convinced that deception usually will not present itself openly, shouting out in an open square. "Here I am." Rather, deception is just that
"the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him" from Websters dictionary.

Just attack the Critics

Any time that I have seen anyone question the validity or the doctrine presented in this book they are attacked as being unloving, unkind, or somehow being out of touch with God's love. I regularly see in comments in many of the blogs an attack on doctrine, as its being unnecessary to a relationship with God.

We are told by some that doctrine gets in the way of a loving relationship. And that we don't know God by way of doctrine or teachings. Yet we're told Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, the word of God is doctrine and teaching, and he says it is one of the ways we come to know him.

Has God Become Lawless?

Another problem I have with the book is on pages 122 and 123, Mac is told by Jesus, that hierarchies, organization, and law or regulations get in the way of relationship. It was my understanding that the law is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but then that's just what the Bible says.

Now, I can already hear the comments coming at me. Somehow, somewhere, someone is going to think I am being unloving in criticizing a book that has emotionally separated some from the truth of God's Word.
What Does Paul Young Believe and Teach?

2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.


I like to find out who the author is of anything that I am taking as part of my spiritual journey as I seek to grow closer to Christ. I'd like to quote directly from Willie Young's blog about the shack, that is attached to his shack website...

May 24, 2007

"The second element is this: if Jesus drew occasionally upon his `God' capabilities, then how could he qualify as my representative and substitute, let alone model a dependent human life - I can't do that? He would have ceased being a truly human sacrifice.

I am personally convinced that Jesus was born, lived, died, was raised and now reigns as a fully human being, and has not drawn upon his deity ever in that process." Willie P Young


Luk 9:42 And as he was yet coming, the devil threw him down, and tore him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
Luk 9:43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,
Luk 9:44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
Luk 9:45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.

Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.


If you believe that Jesus never drew on His Deity in His life on earth or since His death and resurrection, than you make him out to be weak and impotent, and not God at all. He was God in the flesh, the very statement declares his deity.

Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

If Jesus reigns now as a fully human being, then he is not in heaven and has not inherited the kingdom.

1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
You will know them by their fruits....
why bad doctrine leads to bad religion
If we follow just a few of the bad doctrines of "The Shack" to their logical conclusions, we end up with some very twisted theology.

First, Making God into a woman.
over 2300 times God is referred to as He in the Scriptures, and not once is He a She...God declares himself to be masculine. Flat out, it is heresy to say that God is a woman. not because it doesn't fit my "world view", but because God declares who He is in His revealed Word, and because I believe Jesus!

When Jesus tells me that if you have seen Him you have seen the Father, when He tells me we must worship in Spirit and in Truth, then we need to obey that, and recognize in Truth who God is. If you carry the doctrine of God as a woman to its logical end, then seeing Christ as you do the Father takes from Him His gender at best and much worse at the other end of the spectrum. This is blasphemy! And then you dare to call Elousia "Papa" and god? This is twisted, calling a woman Papa, and God who declares Himself to be God, calling Him a woman.
The Bad fruit of the Holy Spirit as a woman...
why this is a perverse view of the Holy Spirit.....
Okay, this one makes me sick to think about, but it is the logical result of carrying this really horrific doctrine to its end result.


Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately.
Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Luk 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

You see, it is by the holy Spirit that Mary conceives, and so if the Holy Spirit is a woman then what does that make both Mary and the holy Spirit? If Christ is the result of an action of the Holy Spirit upon Mary then you can follow the logic, this becomes an even greater miracle than before, largely because it goes against the Scriptures.

Thank God I am not Him, because this to me is blasphemy of the holy Spirit, which would be the unforgivable sin! But thanks be to God that He is the judge and not me.

The feminist agenda of perverting the message of God carries itself out to some very strange doctrines indeed.
Do I Hate Willie Young?
So am I unloving because I give you the truth? Do I hate Willie Young, because I criticize his work and words, and act as a Berean by comparing his words to Scripture, and his doctrines? God forbid!

Rather, I would rather be found as a watchman, shouting out a warning, the there are wolves in our midst! These wolves are like tares among wheat, and like wolves, with a sheep's clothing. Watch out! Wake up! Be always prepared, for you to not know the day or the hour. We are told before Christ comes again that there will be a great apostasy. And apostasy takes place among those who believe, you have to believe before you can fall away.

We are warned, Christ said, "I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8

So go ahead, let the comments loose. I just find so few voices who are willing to stand up for God's Word, and to protect doctrine, when the doctrinal errors revealed are from this book "The Shack".

"Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son" (2John 1:9).
Stop being carried away by every wind of doctrine
Perhaps what amazes me the most about this book, "The Shack", is its almost hypnotic power to take captive the hearts and minds of believers, as if they were under a magical spell. They throw all caution, doctrine, and wise counsel out the window, because this book has touched their emotions so deeply. I think it also ironic, that Willie Young's personal website is called windrumors.com, and that his publishing company is called Windblown Media.

Please notice, the Scriptures are specific, he gave us teachers, prophets, pastors and evangelists,for the perfecting of the saints and the edifying of the body of Christ. In that we might become perfect men and women reaching the full stature of the fullness of Christ. We are not talking emotions here, but truth and doctrine!this is to protect us from being windblown by every wind of doctrine. We are not to rush after rumors, or deception, cleverly crafted in the form of a tale or fable.

Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Eph 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Eph 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Eph 4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
Eph 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus
Links to further your scrutiny, or as Paul said to the Bereans, search
search the scriptures to see if these things are so
Al Mohler talks about the Shack
Al Mohler talks on the Doctrine of The Shack in light of the Scripture. He gives a short intro, discusses several other topics and then at about 10 minutes into the program spends 20 minutes discussing why this is a rewriting of Biblical Christianity
An interesting conversation on the Shack
A sometimes heated debate about the virtues and viles of the book
The Shack: Harmless Allegory or Deadly Heresy?
"There is perhaps no book within the last few months that has released such a firestorm of discussion as The Shack by William P. Young. As I write this review..."
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