C . BAXTER KRUGER |
Dear brother , either Jesus is in us or |
For those not familiar with C . Baxter Kruger |
we are separated from him . 25 |
, he is a self-described Mississippi theo- | |
logian who is the Director of Perichoresis |
At one point , Aidan asks the apostle |
Ministries and the author of nine books |
John , “ This mess , this historical quagmire |
that include The Shack Revisited . Some of |
of religions , wars , abuses , lust , and fear , all |
his many joint speaking appearances with |
grows out of a single untruth ?” |
Young are easily found on the Internet . In |
John answers , “ Indeed my son . . . The |
his introduction to The Shack Revisited , |
lie that we are separated from Jesus and his |
Wm . Paul Young writes that Kruger ’ s book |
Father .” |
will help the reader to better understand the |
To which Aidan comments , “ So in your |
“ perspectives and theology that frame The |
gospel and letters , you ’ re trying to help us |
Shack .” 20 While Kruger ’ s account of the |
see through the lie of separation .” 26 |
beaver dam vision and the “ lie of separation |
In another exchange , John tells Aidan , |
” don ’ t appear in The Shack Revisited , |
“ The assumption of separation is the great |
they do show up in Kruger ” s 2016 book |
darkness .” 27 Never referring to Satan as |
Patmos . |
Satan , but only as “ Ophis ,” John warns : |
In Patmos , Aidan , “ a burned-out , suicidal | |
theologian ” from Mississippi , time |
This is Ophis ’ s chief trick — blind us |
travels to the first century and lands in a |
to how close the Lord is , closer than |
cave with the apostle John . Kruger cleverly |
breath : we ’ re in him , and he ’ s in us . |
puts his own words and theology in |
Ophis deceives the nations by one |
John ’ s mouth — much like Young did with |
lie — separation . 28 |
“ Papa ,” “ Jesus ,” and “ Sarayu ” in The Shack .
By the end of his novel , Kruger has the apostle John sounding more like an apostate
John — most especially when it comes to a conversation Aidan and John have regarding separation . After Aidan tells John how he had to “ escape the twin clutches of fundamentalism and modernism ,” 21 Kruger ’ s apostle John tells him ,“ There is only one battle ”—“ Union or separation .” 22 He tells
Aidan that the world ’ s problems all revolve around one crucial matter —“ Ourselves and
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Thus Kruger — by putting his own words in the apostle John ’ s mouth — has
John teaching what the New Age has been teaching for decades . And that is that there is no separation between God and creation because God is “ in ” everyone and everything . But what Kruger is teaching is not true and is not from God . He and
Wm . Paul Young are not exposing the deception — they are a part of it . The lie that is in the process of actually deceiving the
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Volume 5 — No . 6 |
November / December 2017 |