The .mp3 audio below is an interview with the author of “The Shack” and the article below it is a detailed critical review produced by Christian apologist Matt Slick of Carm.org. After listening to the audio interview below and more critically perusing through this book, I am led to think that the author of this book holds to some type of “Christian universalism”, i.e., a person that believes that all people eventually will be saved through Jesus Christ even though they never repented and believed in Christ in this earthly life. If this is what Paul (William) Young believes, then he is a heretic who must be rebuked, exposed, and shunned if he fails to repent (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5; 2 Timothy 2:23-25; Titus 3:10-11). If he doesn’t believe this, then he is certainly confused and needs to be continually rebuked and educated until he corrects his theology and he needs to correct this and other doctrinally weird areas of his book because he is confusing people who don’t need to be confused any further. Either way, this book is bad news because it is rife with bad theology; which of course, is nothing new to the ever-apostatizing church represented by modern American evangelicalism.

Apologist Matt Slick Interviews Paul (William)Young, Author of “The Shack”

“The Shack is a popular book in Christian circles, at least at the time this article was written in May of 2008. The Shack is supposed to be the account of a person who spent a weekend with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in a shack in a forest. It is a fictional story¹ of Mr. Mackenzie Allen Phillips, written by William P. Young. Mack suffers the horrible loss of his young daughter to a serial killer. Of course, Mack is highly distraught and traumatized. The book is about his “healing” via an encounter with the persons of the Trinity who all three take human form and dialogue with him in this cabin and the surrounding countryside. It is written well enough to be an enjoyable read. It has many positive things to say such as God being loving, that he wants a relationship with us, and that Jesus died for us. That is fine, but this is supposed to be an actual account of what happened to Mack immediately prior to a serious car accident. Okay, so is it true? Let’s take a look.”

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