The Shack vs. the Bible?
The Shack , a novel by William Paul Young, has sold over 20 million copies and has been made into a feature film. It's about a man whose daughter was murdered, leading him to ask why a loving God would allow such evil. He returns to the place where she died and meets God as a woman who goes by Papa, the Holy Spirit, also a woman, and Young's version of Jesus. Though The Shack is fiction, it teaches unbiblical ideas Young said he believes about God: "Please don't misunderstand me. The Shack is theology, but it is theology wrapped in a story." William Paul Young in the introduction to The Shack Revisited by C. Baxter Kruger. He believes God the Father was crucified with Jesus (pg. 96 of The Shack ), a heresy called patripassianism that was condemned in the 3rd century. The Son of God was crucified on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, absorbing the wrath of God the Father. "Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him; He has put Him to grief....