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    After watching some Westerner mess around with all kinds of religions (papa, sarayu, universalism) and call it Christianity, I decided to head over to the Calvary Temple in Hyderabad, India and watch some of their videos. I've travelled India for a month so that works for me. Nice to watch some Indian Christians perform, preach, pray and worship for a change. You know, people whom you are used to being from some other religion and instead they are filled by the Spirit of God. What an antidote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    The graphic artist who helped design the controversial best-selling novel "The Shack" has come forward to express his regret for being a part of the project out of his concern that it contains false doctrine.

    "[O]ver 10 years ago, I was captivated by the story and felt honored to be part of the graphic creation of the book. I was so drawn into it, wanting to know the God it portrayed," Dave Aldrich of Aldrich Design posted to social media on Tuesday. "The Shack's story wonderfully painted this picture to me of an incredibly knowable and loving God, one full of forgiveness, but without being judgmental."

    He said that the novel led him into reading other authors such as Rob Bell and Brian McLaren, and he found himself at the edge of accepting universalist beliefs before he came to realize the danger.
    "I thank the Lord that He pulled me back from that edge," Aldrich wrote.

    And while the graphic designer initially liked how God was portrayed as being non-judgmental and all-loving, he now realizes that because God is love, He must judge sin.
    "The fact is that there are two inseparable sides to God. He is both love and judge," he said.
    Aldrich states that he now has "deep regrets" over his personal involvement with and promotion of "The Shack."

    "The movie release of 'The Shack' has brought all this back to my mind and I felt the need to apologize to all who I may have led astray by my promoting the book," he wrote. "I look back and see how little discernment I had. And I regret and apologize also for waiting this long to publicly share this."
    And while some may argue that the book and film are just an imaginary story, Aldrich believes—based on the statements of its author—that the work is simply a means to communicate a message.
    "Many will still say that the book was intended as just a work of fiction, but the author himself, William Paul Young, is quoted as saying, 'The Shack is theology. But it is a theology wrapped in a story,'" Aldrich noted.

    http://christiannews.net/2017/04/10/...enounces-book/

    Hmmm? Interesting.
    And while the graphic designer initially liked how God was portrayed as being non-judgmental and all-loving, he now realizes that because God is love, He must judge sin.
    "The fact is that there are two inseparable sides to God. He is both love and judge," he said.
    I saw both love and judge in the movie and book.....the judge scene made it clear God alone sits on that throne....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    John 14:1 "Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
    2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
    3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

    Jesus prepared a mansion for each of his disciples when he ascended to heaven and presented himself before the Father after his resurrection. Then he returned and gave them the Holy Spirit and he thereby received them to himself in the mansion that he had prepared for them. Anyone who worships in Spirit and truth is dwelling with Jesus in the mansion that Jesus prepared for him. This will become more real in afterlife but it is a spiritual reality right now.

    In some shack somewhere there is Papa, Sarayu and "Jesus" that Christians can hang out with and learn from. It's not the kind of shack where the bridegroom receives the bride though. You know what kind of a shack I'm talking about. The kind where people are "opposed to government, church and marriage". I'm sure Young talks about the part inside the quote somewhere, in fact.
    Speculation and innuendo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by victoryword View Post
    That IS interesting
    He said a lot of things in various interviews...He also said it's not theology but it contains theology...going on to state it's fiction not based on 'systematic theology'.

    It addresses one aspect...the relationship within the trinity and how God, the trinity wants that same relationship with us....and that Jesus paid the price so we could enter it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    Speculation and innuendo?
    No, the quote is real.

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