The Shack and Why I Hate It

[inimagiodei]

So our Sunday School class is reading The Shack.  Supposedly it's this revolutionary way of understanding God and drawing closer blahblahblah (please note that these blahs do not reflect my feeling about those goals but about the book).

The book starts with a foreword which claims that the story yo're about to read really happened to a friend of the

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imagio?

[anonymous]

I'm searching around for a legitimate etymology of Elousia from the Shack, and somehow I came across your blog. You claim to be an OT scholar, but you've made up a Latin noun imagio. It's tough to be an OT scholar without at least a tolerable knowledge of Latin, and any first year Latin student knows that imago is third declension, so "in the image of god" would be "in imagine dei" and "image of god" is "imago dei."

Re: imagio?

[anonymous]

LOL you're cute that you think that knowing Latin is required to be a biblical scholar. I took two years in HS and do not claim to be a Latin scholar. I do one day hope to be able to return to Latin and improve it, but it is very low on my priorities.

Also, good luck trying to find a way to legitimize anything from the Shack.

Thanks for the amusing but irrelevant flame.

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