Mack in the Shack/Calf in the Desert

 I am halfway through The Shack now. Very very seductive and dangerous heresy. It's on a level with the golden calf, but nobody wants to admit it. All Israel saw the plagues and walked though the Red Sea on dry ground. All Israel then saw Pharaoh's troops drown in the same waters. Promptly they made a golden calf to worship.
What's the big deal with that? It was just a slightly different representation of the good god they all looked to, right? It's not like they weren't thankful.
That's the deceitfulness of sin. They just wanted something understandable and tangible to aid their worship of the true God. Really. How else can we possibly understand the entire nation agreeing to what happened in the context of what God just did for them? How is this different from the justifications modern evangelicals make for The Shack? It is not.
Either The Shack is from the the enemy of our souls or Moses lost touch with God's reality when he descended from the mountain.
Not all heretics have bad breath. Or crooked teeth. Or bad tempers. Or unsympathetic stories. They can be beautiful, vulnerable, creative, empathetic, endearing souls with a life story that breaks your heart. The only acid test is their theology. The Shack has a real theology. That theology is a very real lie. It's a beautiful lie. Like the golden calf. A very beautiful and deadly lie.
What did Moses demand be done with the golden calf? Why? Did that really happen? Was that REALLY necessary? Who initially obeyed God? Moses or the people? And how did Aaron get mixed up in this idolatrous mess?
Our God is a consuming fire. Even if you're not a wild eyed fundamentalist.
But the people begged for a contextualization of the Truth. What's a leader to do?

Aaron's response vs Moses' response
Golden calf vs Consuming Fire
False God of The Shack vs The Holy Triune God of Heaven
The Wide Way vs the Narrow Road

Few indeed there be that find it. Few indeed.

Dear God grant us clarity. In your Grace send Discernment. In your Mercy grant Repentance. In your Love send us Leaders.
Make them Men of God that we may follow them to YOU.

25See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29for our God is a consuming fire.  Heb 12 ESV

BTW it is not my purpose or intent to judge or condemn those whose taste in literature differs from my own.

9(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?^a 10He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds^b and teachers,^c 12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,^d to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Ep 4 ESV

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