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It is also ironic that it is “ Oneness ”— not separation — that is the ” damnable heresy .” It is not the “ lie of separation ” but rather Wm . Paul Young ’ s lie about separation . It was the lie about separation that C . Baxter Kruger passed along to Young who then passed it on to countless TBN viewers . Knowingly or unknowingly , Wm . Paul Young was now teaching Christians on Christian television what the New Age “ God ” and “ Christ ” has been teaching the world for the last fifty years .
Sadly , ironically , and tragically , Wm . Paul Young ’ s Shack “ therapy ” for his own “ Great Sadness ,” for his Shack characters , and for humanity is the same heretical New Age healing offered to us by the New Age “ God ” and “ Christ ” through their channeled New Age teachings . Young and Kruger would have the church “ awaken ” from the “ lie of separation ” and “ shift ” into seeing that God is at “ One ” and in “ union ” with everyone and everything . But their Shack therapy is an Antichrist / false Christ New Age therapy . It is not from God . our ideas about separation from God .” 23 Kruger ’ s “ apostle John ” contrasts the Oneness of believing that Jesus is “ in ” everyone with the “ lie ” of separation that denies Jesus is “ in ” everyone . Kruger ’ s “ John ” gives the time-traveling Aidan the following New Age message :
[ The ] lie of separation from God is the chief of all lies . It may be like a mother spider with a thousand babies on its back , but there is only one mother spider . 24
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
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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SAME SEPARATION LANGUAGE It is important to note the obvious similarities between the “ lie of separation ” concept Young and Kruger attribute to “ the Lord ” and the New Age separation concept . The following are several examples of what the New Age “ God ” and “ Christ ” have previously stated about separation :
A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct . 16
The only solution is the Ultimate Truth : nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else . 17
This is your assignment . This is your work . You are to destroy the illusion of separation . 18
SEPARATION AND YOUNG ’ S “ GREAT SADNESS ” The New Age “ Jesus ” states that sickness results from believing you are “ separate ” from God . Healing — according to this New Age “ Jesus ,” Wm . Paul Young , and C . Baxter Kruger — comes from recognizing the “ lie of separation ” and seeing and believing in “ Oneness ” instead :
A sick person perceives himself as separate from God . Would you see him as separate from you ? It is your task to heal the sense of separation that has made him sick . 19