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Tim Keller hat nun doch noch Die Hütte gelesen und ist ziemlich enttäuscht (Nein, ich will es nicht lesen.):

Anyone who is strongly influenced by the imaginative world of The Shack will be totally unprepared for the far more multi-dimensional and complex God that you actually meet when you read the Bible. In the prophets the reader will find a God who is constantly condemning and vowing judgment on his enemies, while the Persons of the Triune-God of The Shack repeatedly deny that sin is any offense to them. The reader of Psalm 119 is filled with delight at God’s statutes, decrees, and laws, yet the God of The Shack insists that he doesn’t give us any rules or even have any expectations of human beings. All he wants is relationship. The reader of the lives of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and Isaiah will learn that the holiness of God makes his immediate presence dangerous or fatal to us. Someone may counter (as Young seems to do, on p.192) that because of Jesus, God is now only a God of love, making all talk of holiness, wrath, and law obsolete. But when John, one of Jesus’ closest friends, long after the crucifixion sees the risen Christ in person on the isle of Patmos, John ‘fell at his feet as dead.’ (Rev.1:17.) The Shack effectively deconstructs the holiness and transcendence of God. It is simply not there. In its place is unconditional love, period. The God of The Shack has none of the balance and complexity of the Biblical God. Half a God is not God at all.

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Jesus sagt im Buch Die Hütte von William Paul Young (S. 125):

Ich bin der beste Weg, wie die Menschen zu Papa [gemeint ist Gott, der Vater, Mutter oder …] und Sarayu [gemeint ist der Heilige Geist] in Beziehung treten können. Mich zu sehen heißt, sie zu sehen.

Der Jesus des Neuen Testaments sagt (Joh 14,6; vgl. auch Joh 10,9; Mt 11,27; Röm 5,1-2; Hebr 10,20):

Ich bin der Weg und die Wahrheit und das Leben; niemand kommt zum Vater, es sei denn durch mich.