Posted on 01/15/2015 10:59:39 PM PST by LucyT
Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy's story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, Alex Malarkey, said this week that the story was all made up.
"I did not die. I did not go to Heaven," Alex Malarkey wrote. He continued, "I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
you beat me
Are you kidding? Did it sell a lot of books? Yes. They even got a movie deal out of it. I'm sure they got big promotions.
It's not about the truth. It's all about selling books.
Heaven is real, along with Jesus, angels and the souls of those who have died in Christ ... but the “stories” of some people going there and coming back here to “tell the tale” are not real.
I thought this article was about HEAVEN IS FOR REAL.
As for going to Heaven, Benny Hinn says he went. But you have to buy his book to get the details. A total fraud.
If God allowed me to go visit Heaven then come back, I sure wouldn’t charge people to tell them about it.
So. . . when will they be pulling Lena Dunham’s “biography” ???
Many of the current NDE experiencer stories out there are not real. I’m not saying that they did not have a profound experience, they may have.
I’ve had a full blown NDE many years ago and it provides a memory that when recalled is more like a current experience. The profound Love experienced is beyond words.
I can tell if a person has had a real experience or not as every time they recall the experience, I can feel that Love radiating from them. It changes you permanently.
There are many levels of an NDE. Some people just hover over their bed. Some people go and visit friends or loved ones.
Some people get caught up in the darkness of the realm between here and Heaven that I refer to as an etheric fence to keep people out who do not belong there.
Others have the spotlite of Divine Love come upon them that acts as a tractor beam, carrying the soul through the darkness and into the realm of Heaven.
My Father’s mansion has many rooms and thus there are many levels in Heaven. I think it was Paul who described going to the “seventh Heaven.”
Correction... Third Heaven
2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.
Worked for Eben Alexander.. “Proof of Heaven”
You are 100% correct.
This is another, different book.
Do you think that many NDEs are deceptions “from below”, meant to teach us that the narrow gate is wide and open, full of “cheap grace”, when in reality it’s not?
Whenever a heavy burden we are carrying is removed, there is a feeling of profound exhilaration. The heavy burden is carried in the soul and anchored in the physical body.
An NDE is an instant “Dying Daily” event and yields many of the same results as described by Paul. The problem is that it is very difficult to hold onto the Heavenly focus and be here on earth. It’s a constant battle. It’s like trying to swim while holding onto our bag of gold!
If you see an NDE’er exhibiting pride concerning their experience, they have either never had an experience or lost the benefit of the experience. They have developed a spiritual ego identity. They now own the experience as a possession rather than sharing it for the message intended by those who sent the individual back.
When we are full of ourselves we have no room for God.
No one “comes back from heaven” or “from the dead.”
Death is that which is final. If someone “comes back,” he was not dead.
This should be very simple to understand.
Hallucinations of a dying person are not insight into heaven.
Well...Duh!
So who gets you in to heaven is...Lt. Commander Worf?
Well, this boy may not have gone to heaven but we know where Charles ‘My-body-is-on-fire’ Warner ended up... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/16/oklahoma-florida-execute-inmates-with-drug-cocktail-used-in-botched-lethal/
Yeah, no need to yell though. I was confused (haven’t eaten yet or had my coffee) and after the first few seconds of the trailer I realized this one was different. In the search list is a booklet written by a Calvary Chapel pastor which gives a Biblical rebuttal to this malarkey.
I am not saying that the “Heaven Is For Real” event was a lie.
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