What Do We Do With the Truth?
M aybe you haven’t noticed, but The Shack is still going strong, though its sales figures are finally beginning to drop. Yesterday, Albert Mohler posted about The Missing Art of Evangelical Discernment . His post is long, but the basic points I took from it are: The Shack was written for the purpose of promoting a particular brand of theology. That theology has long been known to be against biblical teaching. These idea have been creeping into evangelical thought for decades. The Shack has triggered the popularization of these liberal concepts even among mainstream evangelicals We need to reacquaint Christians with what the Bible really teaches. It doesn’t bother me so much that someone would write a book that includes what The Shack supporter Timothy Beal calls a “nonbiblical metaphorical model of God,” a “nonhierarchical” model of the Trinity and a “theology of universal salvation.” We’ve always had people supporting these idea in one form or another. Timothy Beal didn’t have to ...