Pearls Before Swine

Choosing This Day Whom to Serve

Over at NZ Conservative umbrage is rightly being taken at the effrontery of a secular humanist politician presuming to cast himself in the role of a spokesman for the Christ.  The matter at hand is Green politician, Russel Norman having the chutzpah to tell us what Jesus thought and taught about homosexuality and marriage.

[Colin Craig] says he's Christian, well, Jesus Christ - if he believed in anything, he believed in love, tolerance and inclusion, not the politics of hatred that Colin Craig is promoting [...] Colin Craig should apologize to all new Zealanders for his disgusting and offensive comments. Let's live in a society of tolerance and inclusion - and love. That, surely, is what the Christian message, interpreted the best way, is all about"

Whom does Norman represent here?

Burning Down the Shack

The "Christian" Best Seller is Deceiving Millions

Professor James De Young has written a book-length review of Paul Young's The Shack. His book is entitled, Burning Down the Shack.

Tim Challies comments:

James De Young writes from an interesting perspective—that of a former friend, or acquaintance at least, of Paul Young. He begins his book by providing some important but little-known background to The Shack. In April of 2004 De Young attended a Christian think tank and there Young presented a 103-page paper which presented a defense of universal reconciliation, a Christian form of universalism—the view that at some point every person will come to a right relationship with God. If they do not do this before they die, God will use the fires of hell to purge away (not punish, mind you) any unbelief. Eventually even Satan and his fallen angels will be purged of sin and all of creation will be fully and finally restored. This is to say that after death there is a second chance, and more than that, a complete inevitability, that all people will eventually repent and come to full relationship with God. De Young believes that Young’s belief in universal reconciliation is absolutely crucial to anyone who would truly wish to understand The Shack. It is the key that makes sense of the book and the theology it contains. Though far from the only theological problem with the book, it is the one that makes sense of the others.

Hat Tip: Justin Taylor