This is an open forum. We are all allowed to get on here and comment. Some of us think this book is a stupid hoax and freepers should be intelligent enough to see through it. It’s our opinion and we are expressing it. If you don’t like it, you can always go to Pravda (if it exists anymore) where there is only one point of view.
I also think that people who buy into this book are indulging in superstition - not religion.
We may be reaching the end of the discussion.
Call on me anytime you want for backup.
Perhaps.. none of us really "know"... some of us choose to believe, or dis-believe. Neither side 'knows' who is correct.
As for me, I am prone to believe, largely because of my own personal experiences. When I was born, my mother suffered a severe infection. At one point, she was pronouced "dead", but was revived by doctors. All of my life, while she was living, she told my sister and I about how she felt herself leaving her body.
She said she saw a bright light, and a hand reaching for her. She didn't know who it was, but she knew if she reached out and took the hand, that she would be taken and would have no more pain.
She says she pleaded with God, "Please God, don't take me now. Let me stay until my two children are taken care of".
I heard that story from the time I was a baby... right up until the weekend before I left home to go to college... when Mom was diagnosed with termimal Multiple Myeloma. She was told she would live 6 months. She managed to hang on 4 1/2 years.... She died 3 months after I graduated with my ChE degree. My older sister already had her degree, was married, and had her first son.
MAYBE... it was all just a two decade long coincidence... She never thought so. She saw it as God granting her the bargain.
The Lord give us signs... often. It's up to us to see them, or reject them.