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"Boy who came back from heaven" recants his story

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  • Obsidian
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    I remember thinking that the movie's portrayal of a "preacher" was incredibly lame.

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  • Pentecost
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    I saw the movie Heaven is for Real and I had a hard time believing the kid but I was willing to say, okay maybe he had a charismatic vision of some sort, but if the way the pastor and the board of deacons acted in real life the way they did in the movie, including preaching out of Narnia or somesuch then they are ridiculous, the details are slipping me but I recall being rather annoyed by the idea that such trusted leaders of a church could be so... Childish.

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  • Christianbookworm
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    Don't know. I remember reading one that had a warehouse full of aborted babies. Weird. At least have them be in a orphanage! Not unsupervised in a dirty warehouse! The crazy thing is those "I went to the afterlife" books don't even succeed as good fiction either!

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  • Bill the Cat
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    What was that one from the Mormon lady back in the early 90's?

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  • Christianbookworm
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    And 90 minutes in Heaven was mostly the writer whining about his hospital stay and angsting over the pain of his recovery.

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  • Sparko
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    Awww! You spoil all my fun.

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  • Christianbookworm
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    Uh.. no!

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  • Sparko
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    If anyone wants to see heaven for real, I am willing to help them get there. Just sign over your life insurance policy to me.

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  • Christianbookworm
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    23 minutes in Hell is another with the whole demons torturing humans and stuff. And the author claiming it was too horrifying to have made it up or merely dreamed it. And then having a panic attack over a nightmare and thinking it would kill him.

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  • mossrose
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    Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
    My dad loved The Shack.

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  • One Bad Pig
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    My dad loved The Shack.

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  • mossrose
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    Originally posted by robrecht View Post
    I am not familiar with this case, but it sounds similar to the book by Pastor Todd Burpo about his son Colton's experience and its effect on their family and congregation, which was made into a movie Heaven is for Real starring Greg Kinnear. For those who have read the book or seen the movie, I am curious what you think about it?

    Haven't read and haven't seen. Don't need to in order to know it's baloney.

    The problem with the widespread acceptance of this sort of thing is the inability to know the truth because believers are not studying or being taught the truth in scripture. We are to "test the spirits" and if we don't know the truth we can't recognize falsehood.

    And sadly, publishers will print almost anything these days, throw in down the Christan bookstore pipeline and it gets sucked up by the undiscerning.

    I became very much aware of this issue when someone gave my daughter a copy of "The Shack", and after reading it, she handed it to me and said, "mom, there is something wrong with this book, read it and tell me what you think".

    I did, explained to her the problems with it, and suggested she use it as firepit tinder.

    Undiscerning believers need to get some discernment!

    Last edited by mossrose; 01-14-2015, 01:57 PM.

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  • robrecht
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    I am not familiar with this case, but it sounds similar to the book by Pastor Todd Burpo about his son Colton's experience and its effect on their family and congregation, which was made into a movie Heaven is for Real starring Greg Kinnear. For those who have read the book or seen the movie, I am curious what you think about it?

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  • One Bad Pig
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    According to his mom's blog, he's been trying to say that for at least 3.5 years now (and he and his mother get zero money from sales of the book). Somewhere, some Christians are behaving badly.

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
    Heaven Tourism... interesting way to describe it.
    It's all part of the Oprah Winfreying of America. Talking to angels, everyone goes to heaven, just being spiritual is enough. It's sad that Christians and especially Christian booksellers (Lifeway) buy into this crap or do it for profit.

    From what I can tell, Alex's Dad is still using this as a platform to make money, while Alex and his Mom are doing everything they can to shut it down and have been for a while now. They are being ignored and even blocked from various sites that are selling the book or promoting it.

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