The story is not Biblical and didn’t happen. It is a fantasy by the young boy’s mind or just a fantasy written to make money. Every person who has ever lived and died is dead, graveyard dead with the exception of Jesus Christ. This is why God called him the first-fruits. The reason Jesus Christ got up from the dead is because God raised him. If people go to heaven when they die, why would there be a resurrection of the just and the unjust? They would already be in heaven or some other place. Read your Bible people and quit going by what someone else says about the Bible. When we die, we are dead and stay dead until God sends His Son to raise all for judgment. There will be a group of people who will not die who will be changed from mortal to immortal at the Gathering Together commonly called the Rapture.
Death is the enemy, this what Jesus Christ came to defeat. Going by this cute little story, death is just the gate to some bliss filled place. Not true, if the Bible is correct and if the Bible is not correct, we have no hope. I believe it is, that is why is is called faith.
What an incredible pile of inaccurate, wrong words in your post.
Either you have not read the book . . .
or . . .
you have no idea how to read it with a Biblical yet fair-minded mind-set.
There are verifiable details in the story that could NOT have occurred any other way than for the story to be true.
Willfully blind, Biased ignorance can be a destructive, ugly thing.