The Shack Sparks Controversy Among Faithful

[Heddi]

http://www.lifezette.com/faithzette/the-shack-sparks-controversy-among-faithful/

‘The Shack’ Sparks Controversy Among Faithful
Here's why the new film, based on the book, is startling religious audiences across the nation

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Now Young’s best-selling book “The Shack” is completing its decade-long journey from the page to the screen in a Hollywood film that opened this weekend (March 3), starring Octavia Spencer and Sam Worthington.

Sparking Controversy. It also raised controversy in some evangelical Christian circles. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote in a 2010 blog post that the book’s dialogues between Mack and God “reveal a theology that is unconventional at best, and undoubtedly heretical in certain respects.”

Mohler accused Young of “universal reconciliation,” or the belief that the death and resurrection of Jesus has reconciled all of creation to God.
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In December, after the movie trailer was released, Joe Schimmel, a pastor and host of the documentary “Hollywood’s War on God,” told Christian News Network that the depiction in “The Shack” of God as “Papa,” a motherly black woman, and Sarayu, an Asian woman who is a gardener, “lends itself to a dangerous and false image of God and idolatry.” Schimmel did not comment in the article on the portrayal of Jesus as a Jewish man.

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OMG GOD IS A WOMAN? OF COLOR?? how outrageously offensive

[Heddi]

1. 'The Shack' Makes 'Divine' Box Office Debut; Christians Warn of Portraying God as Woman Read more at

http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-shack-makes-divine-box-office-debut-christians-warn-of-portraying-god-as-woman-176768/

"The Shack" exceeded box office expectations in its premier weekend with one of the best openings for a faith-based film. But as moviegoers watch a woman play God on the big screen, some Christians want to clarify whether they should be more "inclusive" or "gender-blended" when referring to God.
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Reinke made it clear that God is spirit and not a sexual or biological being. Though there are instances throughout Scripture where feminine imagery — such as giving birth or nursing a child — is used to describe God's actions or character, Reinke argued that when it comes to titles, feminine ones are never used in referencing God.

"That explains why in Scripture we find many masculine titles for God: Lord, Father, King, Judge, Savior, Ruler, Warrior, Shepherd, Husband, and even a handful of metaphorical masculine titles like Rock, Fortress, and Shield. While feminine titles for God — Queen, Lady, Mother, and Daughter — are never used," he wrote.

Nevertheless, God revealed himself with masculine titles, Reinke stressed, and Christians should "receive those titles by faith because, in the words of theologian Bruce Waltke, 'It is inexcusable hubris and idolatry on the part of mortals to change the images by which the eternal God chooses to represent himself' (Old Testament Theology, 244)."

[ymetca]

2. "Who owns the Jesus property?"

My favorite quote from Timothy Leary.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I have read the book .............. a unique way to look at god

What I find interesting is that most christians say they do not understand god but believe in him .......... fine
HOWEVER, if you claim to not understand how do you know what can not be??

[trotsky]

4. Anything that pisses off the fundies is good by me. n/t

[edhopper]

5. what if

[Cartoonist]

6. God is a man.

He looks like George Burns. The Bible tells me so.