Posted on 03/11/2011 9:41:31 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
The story follows the Burpo family through months of trying times all culminating with their 3-year-old son Colton’s appendix bursting and his near-death.
A few months after this incident, while on a family-trip, Colton began to reveal that during his surgery he actually visited Heaven.
The details with which Colton described his time in Heaven are absolutely incredible.
I am grateful to the Burpo family for allowing readers to be brought into this incredible story.
As I read the book, there were a few times where I literally dropped my phone to my chest (was reading it on my Kindle app) and gasped in disbelief.
I was in awe at how the details continued to be revealed to the family as Colton continued to let them in on his experience in Heaven.
Personally, Colton’s story drew me back to an experience I had with my older sister Stacia while she was still here and suffering through her bout with cancer.
On a Sunday afternoon with her eyes still shut she exclaimed to those of us in her hospital room that she “saw stairs”.
I cannot recall exactly how much time lapsed, but I believe it was over the next couple of hours she gave us a play-by-play of her experience of visiting Heaven.
She was twelve years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at stevansheets.com ...
Likely, sentimental and deceptive.
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.
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.
Either you have not read the book . . . or . . . you have no idea how to read it with a Biblical yet fair-minded mind-set.
I have not read the book. I judged it not worth the time.
There are verifiable details in the story
Not at all contrary to my assertion. Think about it.
Willfully blind, Biased ignorance
You're the expert.
Heaven. "The bible tells us of the existence of a realm our mortal eyes cannot see..... "
Quite an amazing feat to maintain such unscratched polished granit surfaces.
Sounds like at his age,
he’s about to discover how horribly wrong all his books were on so many things.
I feel sorry for this boy. He seems to be mislead by his father who’s out to make a buck or two.
Maybe next there will be a first-hand account about their dog's trip to heaven to help verify the little boy's story. It seems there are some people here who need something to latch onto.
Nah.. If the dad is smart, he'll make this a trilogy in four parts. Next will be the younger sister and then part 3 will be about the dog going to heaven and going "woof, woof, dog darn it, the little excrescence was telling the truth" and then the dog comes back and tells his master "woof, woof, hau, hau, grrr,grrr" and the master translates it to describe all the splendors of heaven
Part 4 will be the magnum opus when Jesse Duplantis or Benny Hinn come to visit the family and listen to the dog speak and then they get a whole new revelation by reading between the Woof-Woofs.
Once that is done, they can re-release the first 3 with additional excerpts of the little kid playing ball with the cherubs and the dog learning that in heaven he's not allowed to scent-mark the trees.
There must be some way to get Vogons into this story.
I think I’m starting to believe, LOL.
plus, all the cats are in hell.. ;-P
That's a whole 'nother book series, there. Their cat can give its first-hand account of its trip to the nether world.
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