text: "I read it and then realized how badly formed our population is." REALLY, now?
  
  
  THE SHACK, was the first piece of writing, since the Council of Constantinople I [381], in which the Trinity was thought of and talked about as MORE than a mystery that Christians must believe.  That's seventeen centuries!  After reading THE SHACK, People began to believe and hope that there could be a RELATIONSHIP with the Holy Trinity beyond the Trinity being a matter of faith.  
  
  
  This is the first step in recognizing that God is not the same version of ZEUS sitting on top of a throne hurling lightening bolts down on sinners.  Of course, in the minds of some, all we have to do is remove the Z from Zeus and change it to D as in Deus----an we have a
  new version of the same-type of pagan god----a 'quid pro quo law and order' god.   For many people either the book or  movie will be the first time many Christians will even think that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the Trinity---- really loves them.