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To: Lee N. Field
LifeWay Christian Resources has stopped selling all "experiential testimonies about heaven" following consideration of a 2014 Southern Baptist Convention resolution on "the sufficiency of Scripture regarding the afterlife"....The resolution, adopted by messengers to the SBC annual meeting in June, warned Christians not to allow "the numerous books and movies purporting to explain or describe the afterlife experience" to "become their source and basis for an understanding of the afterlife."

Sounds like a good idea. I've always been suspicious of these kind of books, mainly because we almost never hear stories like Jeremy's:


Four-year-old Jeremy Werdt says he went to heaven during emergency spleen surgery, and his testimony of seeing Jesus and deceased relatives thrilled his Christian family and landed him a book contract....“To have Jeremy back and talking about this amazing experience of being with the Lord was the most wonderful day of our lives,” says his mother, Brenda. “He named all the relatives he’d seen and we just sat there crying. Then, after a while, we realized he hadn’t said anything about my mom, Grandma Spencer....Every time we asked he just shrugged his shoulders and said, ‘Nope. Not there,’” says Brenda. “We suggested maybe he didn’t recognize her because she looked younger in heaven. He smiled and said, ‘Mom, you recognize everyone in heaven. Grandma wasn’t around.’”
-- from the thread ‘Grandma not in heaven’ boy reports

7 posted on 03/25/2015 10:12:09 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

I know a guy who claimed who died and went to heaven. I trying to find out which dead Professional Wrestlers were there.

According to him, the only ones he saw was Randy Savage Macho Man and Andre the Giant.


12 posted on 03/25/2015 10:25:54 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: Alex Murphy
He smiled and said, ‘Mom, you recognize everyone in heaven. Grandma wasn’t around.’”

Ooops.

23 posted on 03/25/2015 11:06:49 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Alex Murphy

Akward moment no? I am sure there was ‘dead’ silence for a few minutes.


64 posted on 03/25/2015 1:24:01 PM PDT by redleghunter (In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1))
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To: Alex Murphy

I love this :)


74 posted on 03/25/2015 3:07:26 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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