The Shack

In the reading by Abraham Heschel God is portrayed as a very personable and caring God. He has similar feelings as do parents with their own children. When they are doing well or have had good things going on, he feels joy and gratification. When they are acting out or have had something negative happen in their life, he feels sadness and anger. He is said to not judge based on just the bare facts.

How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?’” (77). The rabbi, who practiced his faith religiously, believed that God was no longer with them after suffering in the camp for too long. Everything the rabbi believed in was being torn away from him, piece by piece. His faith in God was supposed to help him persevere through the tortures he was living, but instead it left him wondering if there was even a God to believe in.

Some times the question of “Where is God” surfaces with all the adversities, and I find myself asking “what is God doing for all these people who are suffering?” But however amidst all the issues I know that He is there, and all these problems and conflicts do not change the fact that God exists, and I still have hope for change for these suffering people no matter what the circumstance.

The first time I read the novel “The Shack,” I immediately empathized with the main character. The story is about a little girl who was abducted from a camping site and found murdered. Its main story line follows the emotional roller coaster of her father, Mack. Not to give the entire story away, I will not discuss exactly what Mack experienced. However, losing his daughter filled him with so much pain and anger. Mack could not understand how this could happen, why this would happen to his daughter. Ultimately he struggles with God, wanting to know why God would let his daughter be taken away in such a brutal murder. I have faced struggles and sadness in my life that made me cry out to God asking,

After going their separate ways for a set time in the film Mack and Brady are reunited by an issue surrounding Tanner and Lela. All four characters come together in an effort to stop Lela, Tanner, and other supporting characters from disappearing (Knapp, 198). With this new found conflict comes the opportunity to repair a broken relationship. In order to get Lela and Tanner back to their own world Brady reveals his secret surf board workshop to Mack, which triggers a positive psychic change in Mack. Her acceptance of Brady’s secret forges a deeper, more solid, understanding of Brady’s past transgressions against her, thus applying a figurative bandage to the open wound that was their relationship (Knapp, 198).

It gives Mack hope after 4 years of his little girl being gone. The note states a message that Mack thinks is a twisted joke about his little girl but he later thinks that this message might actually been

When I started to read The Shack by William P. Young, I was expecting a gory memoir of a child who was kidnaped and brutally murdered. But it is so much more. The book goes on to tell the story of Mackenzie Allen Philips, or Mack, who had a drunk for a father that regularly abused him. Over his childhood, he struggled in his relationship with God, which lead him down the path of the “Great Sadness” after his youngest daughter, Missy, was kidnapped. The so-called serial killer “Little Lady Killer” takes his daughter while on a camping trip with his three youngest. The police and Mack search desperately for Missy, and end up finding her bloody dress in a shack in the remote wilderness of Washington. Three and a half years later, Mack receives a strange letter in his mail box telling him to go to the shack where Missy’s dress was found. It’s signed at the end with “Papa”, the name Mack’s wife refers to God as. He goes to the shack only to find himself being faced with the Holy Trinity; God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. Only, God appears as a female version of Morgan Freeman, Jesus appears as a modern-day carpenter, and the Holy Ghost appears as an almost translucent Asian lady called Sarayu (pronounced Suh-ruh-yu). There he is faced with having to learn to trust in God even though it feels as if he is no where to be found, and cope with the death of Missy. Mack has, to say, run-ins with stories from the Bible that were made reality for him, for example walking on water with

The Shack is a riveting book that presents an answer to the question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” The reader learns the communications of three theological truths revealed through Young’s words: revelation, salvation, and the Trinity. The amazing story challenges the reader to understand God’s plan in its entirety.

It's one thing that he's insisted on torturing me every day without fail - but to bring Mack into this as well? How does he even know her? the last rational piece of my brain wonders - but the rest screams out: How dare he? The world blurs around me for a moment, just long enough for me to spin around, and for my hand to move up of its own volition.

She was hugging him without hugging him, or really without even touching him” (The Shack, 1410) in this example it describes how Mack felt when in the presence of who he later found out to be God. The next example from The Shack that stood out was Mack finding the body of his daughter “It took them only a few minutes to find their bittersweet treasure. On a small rock

In the book, the heavy feeling that Mack feels weighing on his shoulders are two important things that go hand-in-hand; guilt and fear. The moment he poured rat poison into his father’s alcohol, Mack instantly regretted everything. He did something that I think most of us would do; he ran from the situation instead of facing it head on.

I was shocked when an older man was now the “new Papa”. Even though the “new Papa” was a man instead of women, and Mack still knew that it was Papa. It was interesting to understand when Papa was explaining that Mack was going to need a father for what they had to do. I don’t really understand why

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The existence of god is a question explored in the novel The Brothers Karamazov by three brothers. Alyosha, a young, devoutly faithful man believes that God exists, and believes deeply in salvation through the forgiveness of sins. Alyosha is almost innocent in his faith, as demonstrated when an elder mentor becomes old and frail. Alyosha observes his lifelong mentor’s body falling apart, and he genuinely believes that a miracle will heal his mentor’s body for being a faithful man. Alyosha becomes extremely emotional when he observes that a miracle is not likely to happen, and claims that though his faith was shaken by this event, he was still certain of God’s existence. However, he does add that although he knows God exists, that he does not accept the world God created in which a miracle is not performed on his mentor.

One of the essentially vital themes referenced in The Shack is love. To commence, it is imperative to acknowledge that the delineation of love is God, and the definition of God is love. In the bible, the authentic definition of love is in 1Chorinthians 13:4-7 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. These are all the depictions of God. In The Shack, Mack was in deepest of his pain where there was no hope, yet, for God's unconditional love, God so much cared to write Mack a note. “Isn't this book fictional? Then it is not quite factual or genuine” one would articulate. The fact that this book is fictional is unquestionably true; however, it is fallacious that God cannot send a note in real world. Nowadays, numerous of humans see God in person, vision, dream...etc. Knowingly, it does not have to be in the form of a