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Ok, I see I've hit a nerve. If you wish to hold to the book as true, ok, your choice, I won't knock you on this Easter Tuesday. Just dwell on the people with wings -- we don't see that in the Bible described about angels but about seraphim and cherubim. It seems like the boy was talking pop images, not reality. Even worse, if you read the book, the pattern is similar -- Colton says something, father gasps and then remembers something and then the boy walks away.

It seems contrived to me, but evidently does not to you -- so if you hold to it as true revelation, I won't knock you and will desist from pointing out my own reservations about the book.

Au contraire! It seems that I have hit a nerve. I've not read the book and was only inquiring as to what about it that you considered did not "gel" with Scripture. Perhaps you haven't actually read the book yourself and you are only taking stabs at it because it wasn't written as an experience by a Catholic "saint"? I have read some of what these people have purported seeing in dreams and visions, maybe even NDE, and I can say I find some of what they claim to not be anywhere close to what I think is Scriptural.

That angels have "wings" is, in fact, something that could be seen from Scripture. God even uses allegory to describe Himself as covering us with His wings. The Bible doesn't give an exhaustive list of what is or isn't in heaven nor what believers can expect to see once they get there. I'm sure the Apostle John had trouble finding the right words to describe what he was permitted to see when he was inspired to write Revelation.

So, again, if you are that interested in panning a particular kid's retelling of what he claims he saw while deathly sick, go ahead. Everyone has a right to their own opinions. I was simply curious about what you found so offensive and contradictory to the Bible, that's all. I only hold to the Holy Scriptures as true Divine revelation, not what someone claims they saw, heard, experienced or imagined. The subject of this thread was about a doctor retelling what he learned and experienced while clinically dead. Where he touches on areas that contradict Scripture, I have to reject because I know God does not contradict himself. Happy post-Easter Tuesday to you, too.