heres the deal
http://www.equip.org/articles/boy-came-back-heaven/
Mom says colton had nothing to do with writing ANYTHING!
There are other recent stories of a near death experience in which the briefly dead person meets someone in heaven. The neurosurgeon who wrote a boo about this describes meeting a sister he never knew he had - he said he felt she was a woman “I always knew but I didn’t know who she was”. When he got back he did research and found out he was adopted and he in fact did have a sister who was already deceased. This experience transformed his beliefs.
The doctrine of soul sleep is very much a minority viewpoint among Christians, and is actually directly counter-scriptural.
Jesus repeatedly refers to sentient souls in the afterlife, in the present tense.
Paul describes souls having reached the sentient afterlife.
Revelations describes souls in Heaven, before Judgment Day, watching the events unfold on the Earth below.
Among Protestants:
John Calvin wrote many tracts, cblasting this idea, including: “Psychopannychia, or a refutation of the error entertained by some unskillful persons, who ignorantly imagine that in the interval between death and the judgment the soul sleeps.”
It’s a great movie, for those who don’t study scripture.
I don’t listen to mediums and their channelings, even if they’re cute little children!
Sorry, that was mean. I want to slap the Burpo parents for allowing this nonsense, not the kid. Jesus made it clear via his story about the poor beggar outside the gates of the rich man’s house that, even if someone could come back from Sheol/Hades and warn their own family it wouldn’t matter. They “have the prophets”, and that is what God chose to provide! Believe WITHOUT seeing. That narrow gate will not be widened.
So much nonsense is passed off on the Church by happy-happy Sanguines who, obviously re: the visions of this kid, lack discernment. We need them, but not as teachers. Think Paul (who DID have heavenly visions, yet spoke of them in third person) or James would have fallen for this error?
In context: 1 Cor. 15:50-54: NIV
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
What Paul is saying is that those who are STILL ALIVE at the time will be changed.
Those who have gone before us HAVE ALREADY BEEN CHANGED into their Spirit Bodies. When you die, your Life Spirit returns to God, the source of ALL life. You earthly body decays and returns to DUST of which it is made, the source of all earthly bodies, plant or animal.
Sorry, but death is final. If someone “comes back,” he was NOT DEAD. There is a moment at which the death process is irreversible, but there is eventual finality.
I don’t go to these kinds of movies. I go to movies for escapist entertainment — a few moments out of my life to rest my brain. I don’t mean to disparage the movie, it’s just not my cup of tea. I prefer comedies, action-adventure, distopian, etc.
There are many books that have been written, chronicling the experiences of people who had near death experiences. I believe the first one of note was Dr. Raymond Moody’s “Life After Life”, which was written in the ‘70’s (?). While no single experience seems identical to another, there are many different common patterns of experience that emerge from the many accounts. To me, reading Moody’s book back in the ‘80’s helped to affirm my Christian belief in a spiritual existence after death. The reality of the spiritual realm is probably far more complex than the human mind can even contemplate.
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions" - Joel 2:28
Why can’t this little boys experience be a miracle, a gift from God to help us here on earth have a glimpse of heaven? Many are always wanting to see real life miracles, then when we get one, we still doubt.
One lady told me she had two.
The first was when she was a Christian. She described the bright lights, feeling loved, seeing family. The usual. She converted to a well know religion that makes use of many Christian terms and later had another experience. It involved pain, fire and torment.
A neighbor, who had was not a believer went into cardiac arrest and was resuscitated. He told me that Hell is a real place. When talking about it he had a panicked look and trembled. Sadly he will not come to Jesus.
Scripture is silent on this phenomena so I don't take a stand on it one way or the other. But for that reason I will not see the movie.
I read the book. It was an interesting read.
I feel for what the parents went through.
I take the rest of it with a large grain of salt. Can’t prove it’s true. Can’t prove it’s not. Some of the stuff in there is intriguing.
That said, I doubt it will convince someone that heaven is real who would not believe anyway. Even if someone rises from the dead, and all.....