Lies We Believe About God (a review of the new book by The Shack author William Paul Young)
Hot on the release of the mediocre film The Shack (18% approval rating by critics on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.8 viewer rating on IMDb), the book's author William Paul Young has released Lies We Believe About God . It came out March 7, less than a week after The Shack hit theaters. If there was any question about Young's theology, this book leaves no doubt. Personally, I had no questions about what Young believes about God -- it's all in The Shack . But this hasn't stopped scores of people from defending the book/movie as "just a story." For example, rapper Lecrae, featured on the film's soundtrack, defended it as just fiction and not theology , as though fiction gets a pass when it comes to the scrutiny God commands we are to give everything (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Aside from the fact that any talk about God is theology, Young has outright said The Shack is theology. In the forward to C. Baxter Kruger's book The Shack Revisited , Young wrote, ...