3.31.2009

Another Interview

Do you know why the host of It's A New Day picked up and read The Shack? Because Eugene Petersen and Michael W. Smith endorsed the back cover.

Here is today's interview:
http://www.newday.org/ontheair/popupmov.php?program=34122

They are featuring Mr. Young for the rest of the week here:
http://www.newday.org/

The hosts of this Canadian Christian television show may love this book, but it looks like they are in the same boat as the Gaithers, and haven't heard the rest of the story.

By the way, according to William Young, those who are challenging his book base their doctrinal paradigms on fear. Apparently, the pushback is from people who are afraid, because fear and love are opposites. Hmmm...

See these:

The Shack Author Joins the Ranks of Those Who Deny Substitutionary Atonement
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com

The Shack Author Rejects Biblical Substitutionary Atonement
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com

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Note:

After watching this interview and hearing the statements Mr. Young made, I suppose those who have 'doctrinal paradigms based on fear' might include the following:

'Feared based': Eric Barger, Brannon Howse, Ken Silva, Berit Kjos, Jan Markell, Norman Geisler, Larry DeBruyn, Mike Oppenheimer, Gary Gilley, Tim Challies, Albert Mohler, Warren Smith, the fine people at Lighthouse Trails, Herescope, Calvary Chapel, and anyone else who “challenges” the book. (See some of their reviews here.)

Not 'fear based':
Mark Lowry, The Gaithers, Michael W. Smith, Eugene Petersen, Steve Brown, the entire Thiessen family of It's a New Day, and anyone else who loves the book.

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Update: By the way, forgot to mention that Mr. Thiessen, host of It's a New Day, has sadly shown a lack of discernment, and has been gullible on many occasions, not only by having various guests on his show over the years who are missing the mark, but even claiming to have had a gold tooth miracle which he later realized was just a filling. See here:
TV evangelists forced to recant claims of God's divine dentistry
"An honest mistake"
The Canadian Press/May 12, 1999
www.rickross.com
Posted by carla at 31.3.09
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2 comments:

Robin said...

How did I miss this post?! I guess it's because I never encountered that show until yesterday (July 30), where they are re-airing the 4 part interview, of which I caught the last 45 minutes. What ticked me off about it was how they basically mocked those who challenged the book, and delighted in the fact that a fraction of a certain congregation ignored their pastor's warning to stay away from the book! That pastor was later removed and replaced by one whose wife "love, love, loved" the book! Reminds me of numerous scripture passages, namely the grumbling children of Israel in the wilderness who whined for meat (You want meat? I'll give you meat!); and Israel's later plea for a king (they got Saul who mercilessly butchered the priests but spared the king of Amalek). God will not be mocked: we reap what we sow.

Fri Jul 31, 08:24:00 AM PDT
carla said...

Oh so very sad, indeed. All that whiny stuff makes one nauseous.

You make a good point Robin.

That mistake of Saul came back to haunt them in the form of Haman the Agagite, King Agag was an Amalakite (the grandson of Esau, a man after the flesh - gave up his birthright for his fleshly desires). The Amalekites are a type of the flesh - if we don't wipe it out (Romans 13:14) it will come after us. Haman, of course, plotted to destroy them.

Which is a very good point regarding this book, as it seems to appeal to people's flesh - their desire to have a god of their own making. I wonder...is the God of The Shack so popular because it is a god like they want him to be, a god made of flesh who accepts them the way they are, in the flesh (penal substitionary atonement not necessary)? As God is just, He will give people over to their desires, and to the spirit of error behind the teaching in the book (and don't tell me it's JUST fiction).

Just a thought...

Fri Jul 31, 09:19:00 AM PDT

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