It is unbelievable that an author who does not believe in the atonement of Christ or the God of the Bible has sold upward of 14,000,000 books to largely Christian audiences through Christian bookstores and events, and is touted as a Christian author when he says he is not.
Excerpt from Lighthouse Trails Article
"...author and researcher Ray Yungen attended a lecture at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon to hear The Shack author, William Paul Young. The name of Young's talk was "Can God Really Be That Good?" During the talk, Young told the audience that "the God of evangelical Christianity is a monster." He was referring to the evangelical belief that God is a God of judgment and will judge the unbelieving. Young also rejects the biblical view of atonement (wherein Jesus died as a substitute for us to pay the price of our sins). This view by Young is evident in a radio interview where he rejected this view of the atonement. He echoes the sentiments of William Shannon and Brennan Manning, who both say that the God who punishes His own son to pay for the sins of others does not exist:
Quote: "He is the God who exacts the last drop of blood from His Son, so that His just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased. This God whose moods alternate between graciousness and fierce anger - a God who is still all too familiar to many Christians - is a caricature of the true God. This God does not exist. (Shannon, Silence on Fire, p. 110). Unquote
Manning wrote the same thing in his book, Above All, pp. 58-59 .
Speaking of the blood atonement of Christ, Young asked evangelicals, "Do you want to hold onto your darkness?" and answered for them, "No, you want to get rid of it."
Fellow Christians, It is William Paul Young's book we should be getting rid of, not the God of the Bible.
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