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The official name is LifeWay Christian Resources.

There is no doubt that it is a book store. There also is not a lot of competition on most of the nation.

 

Get your Lifeway cheese here:

http://www.lifeway.net/Products/Cheese.aspx

 

These Lifeway denominational bureaucrats sicced their lawyers on a small town chiropractor using the name 'Lifeway Chiropractic' for his office:

LifeWay Christian Sues Franklin Chiropractor

 

Jerome, what is your problem?

 

I'm not familiar with the book, "The Shack"

Is it a bio on Shaquel O'Neal??? aka The Shack??

 

http://www.albertmohler.com/2008/04/11/a-look-at-the-shack-3/

 

At the last SBC Annual Meeting a motion was referred to Lifeway:

So did this motion also end up in the Lifeway bureaucrats' 'circular file'?

 

Ding, Ding, Ding, You are correct!!!:laugh:

http://sacredsandwich.com/archives/3335

 

briefly, a man had his daughter killed, and felt 'led' to go to a shack, in which he interacted with God the father/Son/Spirit, and each of them was a different human...

 

I'm currently listening to The Shack. Althought I'm not finished with the book yet, I am surprised by the over-reaction of Calvinists to this book, but then again, maybe I shouldn't be. More scare tacticts it looks to me... I wonder if the loudest critics have even read the book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-q6lEiUTY

 

Think that it represents the trinity in an ungodly fashion, and has bad theology to boot!

 

Have you even read it or are you content with being willing to issue condemning judgemental statements based on presumption?

 

yes, I did rfead it, as did my pastor for a book review... Both of us came to same comclusions!

 

I respect you for reading the book before commenting. I do not think the story is done in an ungodly fashion. It is not surprising to me that Calvinists would object to the book as they do.

 

That book is perhaps one of the most dangerous books to gain popularity in Christian circles in recent history. I don't know how many times I have heard, "Oh, I just love "The Shack" it helped me to understand God and the Trinity in ways I just never did before!" Sadly, it is not God, or the Trinity, but a sick and twisted perversion of God and His Word.

A few years ago I was discussing this with one of my prof's at Bible college. It was part of a class discussion on the Trinity in a theology class. She told me that I was spiritually stunted if I could not imagine God the Father as a fat black woman. I admit that got to me and my response was that she was spiritually stunted if she couldn't accept God for who He is and He describes Himself in His Word.

These people do not care that it undermines some important doctrinal issues regarding our Heavenly Father, adoption, and even the roles of men and women in the Church and in the home. Of course, I was attending a Nazarene school so we had lots of interesting discussions with me being the off SBC pastor in the class.


EDIT TO ADD:
And yes, I did read the book.

 

It is not surprising that calvinists view as 'dangerous' something that advances a view of God that is counter-calvinistic. All of this ballyhooing from famous outspoken critics, while predictable, is still undeserved... but, should they continue to raise a fuss it will only serve to get more people to actually read the book.

 

can you image a pious jew or Muslim allowing Allah/yahweh be portaryed in such matter?

 

No one said anything about Calvinism but you. The doctrine of the Trinity isn't even a Calvinist issue. Why you insist on that line of thinking is not surprising though. The critics are those who value and support clear Scripture.

 

In some ways this point is a nonsequiter. In other ways I can answer your question with a yes... actually, I'm not sure how to make sense out of your question except to say that yes, I can imagine a pious jew or muslim being open minded enough to see profit in novels of fiction and that they would know full well that they should not derive their theology based on works in this genre of literature.