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    The Truth Versus Lies: Shack Author Rejects Central Christian Doctrines


    The Truth Versus Lies: Shack Author Rejects Central Christian Doctrines
    A former colleague takes apart The Shack author's new book denying Biblical truths.
    By James De Young Published on February 5, 2018
    https://stream.org/truth-versus-lies/

    When Paul Young and I founded a Christian think-tank together, little did I suspect that Paul would write a national bestseller (The Shack), let alone one that so radically distorts the gospel. But now Paul has gone a step further. He's published a theological manifesto that explicitly denies doctrines central to the Christian faith. The cat is finally out of the bag.

    Paul Young's book Lies We Believe about God, which appeared last March, exposed what Paul Young really, truly believes about God and Christianity. No one should any longer be in doubt or confused.

    For fourteen years
    I and others have been saying that Paul Young embraces universal reconciliation, that it is embedded in his novel, The Shack, and in the movie (2017). I was often rebuffed, even by Paul himself.

    The History of Young's Embrace, Then Denial, of Universal Reconciliation

    I have known Paul Young for over two decades....



    ....Young Confesses Universalism in His New Book, Lies

    But now the truth comes out. In Lies, Young embraces virtually everything that he embraced in his 2004 paper. "Lies" is his word of choice to characterize 28 doctrines that we Christians have historically believed.

    Here are some of the 28 evangelical "lies" that Young accuses Christians of believing in error. Many of these are "straw men" — doctrines he claims Christians believe, though in fact we do not. .....



    .....In his final chapter Young rejects the God of his "modern evangelical Christian fundamentalism" because this God originated evil and perpetrated child abuse on the cross!

    But the clincher in Lies is number 13, titled "You need to get saved." Young boldly confesses "universal salvation," the belief that all people are saved already whether they believe or not.

    Young's repudiation of all of these "lies" flows from his core belief in UR.

    Young Has Deceived Millions Again

    Young's affirmation of UR means that what he said in my home in 2007 was untrue. He had not stopped believing UR. He has continually embraced UR since 2004. In response to Young's new book I've written: Lies Paul Young Believes about God: How the author of The Shack Is Deceiving Millions of Christians Again. I give the biblical response to all twenty-eight "lies." My website further exposes Young's heresy.

    What Has Emboldened Young to Write Lies?

    In an interview, Young claims that evangelicalism is changing; its structures are crumbling; and he stands on the cusp of a new "reformation."
    Like other universalists, Young opposes the institutions of the church, marriage and government, seeking to replace them with a "pure relationship" with God. His follower, C. Baxter Kruger, suggests that Young may be a new Martin Luther!

    Why is UR so dangerous? Universalists assert that even the devil and fallen angels will repent in hell and enter heaven (if hell is even real!). Yet the Bible says that Jesus died only for human beings, as the God-man, not the God-angel (note Heb. 2:16). Thus UR assumes some other basis for fallen angels to get out of hell.

    Further, since love trumps God's justice (in UR thinking), no real judgment occurred on the cross. Jesus did not take on himself the sin or sins of the whole world. UR rejects penal substitution — Jesus' taking our place and paying the price for our sins. Thus UR stabs a dagger into the heart of the gospel, because it makes the cross of Jesus Christ unnecessary.

    It is urgent that the church embrace anew its first love for Christ and the gospel (Rev. 2) and steadfastly proclaim it to a lost, needy world.






    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    We already went through that, his new book is clear and sheds light inside "the Shack", so to speak.

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    So what does Paul Young the universalist believe according to his book, Lies We Believe about God?
    November 21, 2017 Posted in Is Paul Young Orthodox?
    http://liespaulyoungbelievesbook.com...eve-about-god/

    James B. De Young

    Note: the chapters supplied below refer to chapters in my book, Lies Paul Young Believes about God

    Every human being is a child of God (chap. 5).

    God is a sexual being, equally male and female, with whom people have a relationship (chaps. 8, 11).

    The divine nature has been placed in all people (chap. 11).

    God does not have a plan for our lives (chap. 20).

    God is not in control of everything; he is an artist not a planner who often has to change his plan as he submits to our plans (chap. 20).

    God submits to human beings as much as they submit to him (chaps. 20, 21). God submits to “our anger, rage, and wrath” (chap. 21).

    The cross was evil; it was man’s idea, not God’s (chaps. 20, 22). If God originated the cross then he is a “cosmic abuser,” a “cruel and monstrous God.” “Better no god at all than this one” (chap. 22).


    Young asserts that if we evangelicals believe that Jesus endured eternal torment to pay for sins (when he did not, according to Young), then “Calvary was nothing but a farce, a burlesque, a travesty, and a sham. Jesus died a failure and in vain and never redeemed anyone. He is not even a good man, but a liar, and therefore a rogue and a deceiving rascal. Salvation is a mere myth” (from Young’s paper, “Universal Reconciliation,” given in 2004). We make God a “cosmic abuser” of children (chap. 24).


    Young accuses evangelicals of believing that God required the “ultimate child sacrifice” (chap. 24).

    Young declares unequivocally that he believes in “universal salvation” (chap. 25).

    "Saving faith is not our faith, but the faith of Jesus” (chap. 25).

    Every person was included in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus (chap. 25).

    The “good news” is to proclaim to everyone that everyone is already saved apart from faith (chap. 25).

    All the creation including all humanity was created “in God,” that is, “inside Jesus” (chap. 25), in Christ (chap. 6), and have the divine nature (chap. 11).

    Hell does not separate people from God; God is in hell (chap. 26).

    The God of evangelical belief is a “torture-devising” God (chap. 26) who perpetrated the torture of his child Jesus and is the originator of evil (chap. 19).

    People have a second chance to choose God after dying (chap. 27).(Yet, I note, giraffes and dogs have a greater chance of going to heaven than people have a chance of repenting in hell after they die (chap. 27)).

    Sin does not separate people from God (chap. 28).

    Sin is not missing God’s standard of perfection but is diminishing the truth of who a person is, that he or she is already in relationship with God (chap. 28).









    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    When Young wrote The Shack he was already under a false spirit - his latest book confirms he has been deceived and confused for a long time
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    Paul Young will have the blood of thousands if not hundreds of thousands on his hands. Multitudes will be in hell because of the false doctrine and false gospel he preaches. Even TBN gave him his own show to promote his lies. TBN will give an account to God also for promoting this man.
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