The Shack Author Says: The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster”

This past Friday night,
author and researcher Ray Yungen attended a lecture at Concordia
University in Portland, Oregon to hear
The Shack author
William Paul Young. The name of Young’s talk was “Can God Really
Be That Good?”

During the talk,
Young told the audience that
“the God of evangelical Christianity is a monster.” He was
referring to the evangelical belief that God is a God of
judgment and will judge the unbelieving. Young also rejects the
biblical view of atonement (wherein Jesus died as a substitute
for us to pay the price of our sins). This view by Young is evident in a radio

interview he had one year ago where he rejected this view
of the atonement. He echoes the sentiments of William Shannon
and Brennan Manning, who both say that the God who punishes His
own son to pay for the sins of others does not exist:

“He is the God who
exacts the last drop of blood from His Son, so that His just
anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased. This God whose moods
alternate between graciousness and fierce anger – a God who
is still all too familiar to many Christians – is a
caricature of the true God. This God does not exist.[1]

Young told the audience
that his book has now sold 14 million copies. He says that he
believes his book has been a ‘god thing’ to heal people’s souls
because so many people have been tainted by this evangelical
God.

Young said his book is so
effective because when you put something in a story form it gets
past mental defenses.
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Young’s obvious distain
for Christianity (in a derogatory manner, he said there are “1.4
million” rules in the evangelical church) is shown in his book
as well when The Shack’s “Jesus” states:

“I have no
desire to make them [people from all religious and political
backgrounds] Christian, but I do want to join them in their
transformation into sons and daughters of my Papa” (p. 184).

Young asked
“evangelicals,” “Do you want to hold onto your darkness?” and
answered for them, “No, you want to get rid of it.”

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Note:  1. Shannon, Silence on Fire, p. 110, also see Manning
who stated the very same thing in.” Above All, pp.
58-59.

Source:

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2010/newsletter20100628.htm#2

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