Young runs into trouble with the second commandment which says that we are not to make an image of God in any way and that God cannot and may not be visibly portrayed in any way. Running up against the second commandment It is a very imaginative story, but contains some serious theological difficulties. Mack, then, returns home to his wife Nan and his other two children. After Mack forgives the murderer, God leads Mack to Missy’s body and the four of them bury her. After he forgives his father, God the Father appears to him – and for the rest of the story – as a man. In unique sessions with each of the Trinity, Mack struggles with anger against his abusive father and his hatred against Missy’s killer. God the Father is an Afro-American woman Jesus is a mildly clumsy blue jeans-wearing man the Holy Spirit is an ethereal woman called Sarayu.

The place where she was killed, a shack in the mountains, is discovered, though Missy’s body and the killer are not found. Some time later, Mack receives a letter from God, “Papa”, inviting him back to “the shack.” Mack goes to the shack and meets the Trinity there. Mack’s little daughter, Missy, is kidnapped and murdered while Mack is on a camping trip with his three children. It has been praised by none other than Regent College theologian Eugene Peterson and recording artist Michael W. Young, was the #1 paperback trade fiction on the New York Times Best Sellers list for more than a year and a half. The Shack, the sensational book by William P.

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