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The Shack Movie Review (2. Although it's winter at the shack at first, eventually the season turns to summer. The snow is gone. Flowers bloom. And a cabin in this supernatural setting seems to be calling Mack's name. The cabin is tidy, fresh, warm and cozy.

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And it's there Mack encounters the Trinity in human form. Papa (God) appears in the form of a middle- aged black woman. Papa tells Mack that the appearance is because the wounded man isn't ready to deal with a fatherly God just yet, given what Mack endured with his earthly dad.

He uses His carpentry skills to build something important for Mack's healing. The Holy Spirit, meanwhile, who's called Sarayu, appears as a tall, slender Asian female. And thus begins Mack's fantastical spiritual journey, with the members of the Trinity playing different roles in helping Mack process his grief, his doubt, his rage, his shaken faith. And God is intent on getting Mack unstuck. Mack's dialogue with Papa revolves around perennial questions of the faith: How can a benevolent God allow evil? Does God abandon His people in times of need? Should evildoers be forgiven?

Should a man be judge and jury of those who have wronged him? Does God orchestrate tragedy? Does forgiveness of a great wrong happen instantly, or does it often occur over time? Elsewhere, Jesus has Mack first walking, then running, on water. Jesus reminds Mack, as He did with Peter, to keep his eyes on Him. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit takes Mack to a rather unruly patch of garden.

Although it's beautiful to a point, this tangled collection of colorful plants needs pruning, tending and shaping. She tells Mack that the garden . This realization gives him the strength to move to his next challenges, both involving forgiveness. The first involves a reunion with his departed father, who apologizes for his treatment of Mack on earth.

Later, Mack is invited to forgive his daughter's killer. Mack also finds a Gideon Bible. And it's clear that Scripture is treated as the source of truth and revelation. With so much theological ground covered in this film, it's not surprising there are a few missteps.

For instance, God's loving, forgiving nature is emphasized and reemphasized. And that emphasis on God's immanence—his intimate nearness, as theologians define that term—isn't counterbalanced by that other aspect of God's character as revealed in Scripture: His transcendence, a word that encompasses His holiness, and the fact that He is wholly other from His creation. Admittedly, it's a difficult paradox to get our finite human heads around; but it's a paradox that Scripture nonetheless gives us.

When Mack asks Papa whether those who sin will be punished, Papa replies, . So the film emphasizes God's love and grace without dealing with the paradoxical reality of His holiness and wrath, the latter word being used 9.

New and Old Testaments. Because God the Father is holy, when Jesus took on humanity's sin at Calvary, the Father did forsake Christ (until redemption was accomplished soon thereafter).

Before his encounter with God, Mack tells his children (mostly his youngest daughter) a legend- like story of an Indian princess who jumped off a cliff to save her people. In it, Mack refers to God as the . The daughter goes on to ask, .

The Holy Spirit also bears similar wrist scars. Although perhaps it's meant to show how the Father and Spirit identified with the Son's torturous death, it could lead some filmgoers to incorrectly believe that the Father (and Spirit?) died when only Jesus, in fact, did. Despite those theological missteps, however, there's no doubt here that God. His encounter with God has changed him and birthed real faith in God.

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