The Shack (Part 2)

Well, I've been doing some thinking and while listening to the sermon this morning, I realized something. I was wrong in my previous post. In my previous post, I posed the question if it was okay to be mad with God and basically answered, Yes, God's big enough to handle it. However, even though God is big enough to handle it and God is long suffering enough to allow us to yell at Him that doesn't under any circumstances make it right. The end of the book of Job shows this plain as day and I was mistaken for saying otherwise. My apologies for being wrong.

So now about The Shack. Well, I've read 2 more chapters and talked with some friends at lunch about the book. Basically, I personally feel like it's two separate books, merged together. The first part being real and the second part, fictional odyssey. However, my friends pointed out that the start of the book set the stage for a fictional odyssey and I should have been expecting it all along. They're right, but being the crazy person I am, I still wish The Shack would've gone on with the real part of the book. As the real part of the book was tangible real life that can be useful for someone else going through the same turmoil...

That being said, the fictional odyssey part is definitely worth reading and does a good job of challenging how one views God. You won't get very far in the book before saying, "Wow, I hadn't thought of that." (At least I didn't) So I do recommend it for reading. I won't however speak to its validity doctrine wise as I'm not nearly qualified enough to do so. (Not even remotely)

Basically, I'm even more so realizing that I don't have it all figured out...

Timmay.