Hey everybody Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. This book right here, The Shack, is
supposedly a Christian book. Now it's been made into a movie that's in all the theaters right now. Right here
it says on the book that it's sold over 20 million copies.
I know that the movie in the theaters just in a couple weeks has already grossed over 45 million dollars and
supposedly this is a Christian book. It's a Christian film, but in reality, it's Hindu. It actually teaches
Hinduism. Now, what do I mean by that?
Well, the first thing that's obvious is that in the book the Holy Spirit is called
Sarayu. So instead of calling the Holy Spirit what the Bible calls the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, whatever.
Instead, it's given a Sanskrit name of a Hindu goddess
that's mentioned three times in the Rig Veda known as Sarayu.
But not only that, the whole concept of this book is a Hindu concept and let me explain why. Well in Hinduism,
they believe that there's only one true God, but that that God manifests itself in all these different ways.
So when you see the Hindus worshiping a multitude of gods, what they claim is that those gods just represent
different attributes of the one true God. So in certain situations
they might bow down to the elephant god or the monkey god or this goddess or that god or this god.
But they claim that they're always just worshiping the one true God just through these different
manifestations and each of the gods in Hinduism has various avatars where
their God will basically take on various bodily forms and those those bodily
incarnations of their gods are known as avatars.
So God, according to the Hindus, can appear as any person, any animal, male, female,
have various attributes.
Okay.
Well, that's exactly what this book is teaching because in this book the main character goes to this shack and God the Father
manifests to him as a large black woman and
then Jesus manifests as a Jewish man and then the Holy Spirit
manifests bodily as a Chinese woman named Sarayu, the name of this false goddess.
So that right there is not a Christian concept of God because according to the Bible
nobody has ever seen God the Father at any time Old Testament or New Testament.
The Bible says no man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father
He hath declared him. It also says in Colossians chapter number 1 verse 15 about Jesus Christ that he is
the image of the invisible God the firstborn of every creature.
So according to the Bible
God only has one bodily manifestation and that's Jesus Christ. So it's it's one
manifestation not just a multitude of manifestations that could be male, female, white, black, Chinese,
just all these different characterizations even to include animals. No, the Bible teaches that Jesus is the only
manifestation of God and that no one's ever seen
God the Father and that the Holy Spirit does not take on a bodily human form either.
But Hinduism on the other hand
teaches this because for example in the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna says that when people worship other gods
they're worshiping Krishna. So he's basically saying it doesn't matter what God you worship. I'm the object of all worship
he says in the Bhagavad Gita. Those who worship other gods are worshiping me.
So this idea that God can manifest himself in all these different bodily forms as various people and
that look totally different have totally different attributes. That concept found in the shack is a Hindu
concept not a Christian concept and we know that according to the Bible
those who worship idols are actually worshiping devils.
And so all these so-called
manifestations or incarnations or avatars of God
that the Hindus worship are demons that they're worshiping and that's why there are a multitude of them
because there are millions of demons in this world. So that's why there are millions of Hindu gods. So they bow down to all these
statues and they bow down to molten serpents and they bow down to other
apparitions and things. Those are demons that they're worshiping and this book right here
the shack is demonic because it's teaching the same
idolatrous pagan doctrine that Hinduism is teaching.