I thoroughly agree.
The kid was at the age when there was total innocence and total lack of artifice, affectation or anything false.
He just narrated his experience as HE EXPERIENCED IT. period.
He didn’t really give a flip what others thought—he knew the truth.
I thought it was touching that he too, like Apostle Paul, learned things God told him not to tell—even to his Dad. And he hasn’t.
I thought the wings somewhat disagreed with the narratives of others. However, My God is big enough to give each individual a very tailored and unique experience of Heaven without violating reality. He is God, after all.
And, it’s not like no one else has seen such wings on people, many have. It’s just that Colton seemed to see them on many more than most other people have.
Were the wings a depiction for the little boy, of the capacity to fly through the air at will? I don’t know.
Not to change subjects - by I use that same logic to defend the argument that our Pets will be with us in Heaven if that makes us happy. After all he created them in the first place, and it it not beyond his power to do it again.
Regardless, It will be Glorious beyond all human imagination.
I heard it said once that, - “as a Christian, the day I die will be the best day I’ve ever lived. But it won’t be the best I will ever live.”
Quix,
I would very much like to believe his story, and in fact I'm not claiming that I disbelieve.
However I have a 4 year old, and she will go on and on about make believe friends and places.
And once it has come out of her mouth, she will remember it and repeat it as if it were real - you cannot trip her up.
The only way I know for sure that she's making things up is that she uses things she has just heard or seen in her stories.
For instance, we were sitting next to some women discussing something that happened with one of their kids, and then the next thing you know a few minutes later, she starts talking about how her "friend" just had something similar happen to her.
Sometimes conversations with her can get quite fascinating, as she blends together reality and fantasy and her own brand of 4 year old logic.
For instance, my daughter's friend's name is "Gomestas BenGracias", from Mexico. It is a mouthful for a 4 year old who doesn't speak Spanish, but she has never wavered in the pronunciation. And she ALWAYS mentions that she's from Mexico, whenever she says the name.
Now right before this all started, one of her schoolmates (who she didn't know) was moving to Mexico and gave a speech in front of her class. I'm guessing that she spoke a little in Spanish, saying something like "como estas, bien gracias" - and from there my daughter had a new imaginary best friend.
He later talked about "the birdies" who took care of him and told him he would be OK.
After a lot of talk about "the birdies" it turned out he was talking about Angels.