Heaven is for Real
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Not so amazed
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Mar 16, 2012 10:21AM
I think it was real.
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I am comforted in the fact that I will be rejoined with the child I miscarried. This is part of the book that made me cry. If you are still skeptical, read the book "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" by Kevin and Alex Malarkey.
whats wrong with telling your testimony? i don't think they published this book just to make money. I LOVED this book, and as a Believer i think it's quite powerful.
I loved the book and I don't think a 4 year old could make up such a thing about heaven. He said things that I didn't think would even come out of a 4 year old kids mouth, and I'm sure that the book didn't get big on purpose it was out there for people to get to experience what his heavenly visit was. Simple as that. GOOD BOOK.
This book is AMAZING! I don't understand why people don't think this is real. Heaven is FOR REAL! One day we are all going to face Christ. Most four year olds don't talk about miscarriages and seeing Jesus' markers. I have never met a four year old who has talked like that!
Emily wrote: "This book is AMAZING! I don't understand why people don't think this is real. Heaven is FOR REAL! One day we are all going to face Christ. Most four year olds don't talk about miscarriages and..."And to add to what you said, he saw his grandfather when he was young, how could he have made that up?!?!?!
PEOPLE ARE HATERS!
A four year old kid can be made to believe anything nothing he was taught was anything he couldnt have learned in sunday school. the stuff that he knew which were not religious i think he picked up somewhere when he was listening to his parents. I thought the parents were wrong to use him in this book for there own good and to make money espicialy now he will be forced to stick with this story for the rest of his life.
The book was pretty good, though I am not sure everything it said was realistic, though it's really cute
I thought it was a very touching story. I especially loved when he said that he met his sister in heaven, not knowing that his mom had lost a child. Makes me happy to know one day I will meet the child I lost!!! The story to me was written from a child's view point. And very well written from that aspect...
Finally! At least a few other people who didn't think the book was the greatest thing ever.My review pretty well sums up my feelings on it: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I enjoyed the book as I read it, so much so that it was finished in a couple hours. However, I have to agree that some parts just didn't get to me like they should have. I thought it was just me. I've passed this book along to my mother to see what her thoughts were.
This book was awful. I couldn't even finish it, it was so bad. It couldn't have been written more purposefully to push the religious agenda of the author. And to those of you who claim a 4 year old "couldn't make this stuff up" haven't had much experience with 4 year olds. I live with one. She's completely capable of making up the most outlandish stories and just running with it. Like the time she came home from preschool and told me she had gotten bitten by a tiger on the playground (and proudly showed her bite marks that looks suspiciously like mosquito bites), and that the tiger ate another kid. Or one of my other kids, who at 4 would tell me about her husband who got run over by a blue car while she danced on the tables at a casino in New York. Kids have incredible imaginations, and can and will say just about anything. Especially if the audience- in this case Dad- seems to be hanging on your every word and even adding details to the story to make it EVEN BETTER.
I'm in the un-fan camp. I will even give the parents the benefit of the doubt and say I think they really *believe* the stories are based on Heaven. It's a sweet story and I'm sure it brings comfort to many people, but...I just don't buy it as anything other than a colorful imagination influenced by a Christian upbringing (and keen childhood listening/repeating skills).More than anything, I couldn't handle the author/dad's weak writing skills.
This was a wonderful book. It may not be for everyone but isn't that true of any book? Personally it was very comforting to read after losing someone I was close to.
I truly enjoyed this book with every page I turned. If only we all had the faith of a child.
I really liked this book. I believe everything said in the book and it gave me a new perspective on what heaven would be like. I don't think Colton could have made any of it up because he had never been told about the people he saw in heaven like his grandfather or sister.
Lucy wrote: "Am I the only one who thought this book was less than amazing? I loved the book, Embraced by the Light, so it's not that I don't belive in the afterlife or near death experiences. This book just ..."Completely agreed
Of course the father is pushing his own religious agenda, and making a nice buck or two doing it. And I don't believe a word of the description of heaven. But it's good religion, and the kid was adorable, and I gave the book five stars.
I also loved "Embraced by the Light" and hated this book. Colton didn't add anything new to our lexicon of what heaven is...just burped out (pardon my pun) the same ol' same ol' (except I guess I have to give him props for omitting the unicorn). I believe in God. I have no problem with the concept of heaven being a place that can be physically described. But what about this scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:9: No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.
Burpos are burping up standard, children's illustrated bible version of what we on earth think heaven is. Now die and come back trying to find the words to describe things that we have no concept of on earth and yeah, maybe I'll believe your story. I wish people were not so easily pleased with the simplistic version of what heaven is. God doesn't do what we expect. No one expected him to send his son as a poor carpenter and let him die. I expect heaven to be something I have no capacity to imagine. But if it has Arby's and potato cakes then that'll be okay with me too.
I know this book brings comfort to those who need it, but some of these comments make it sound like a divine revelation from a prophet. It is the hallucination of a 4 year old child, stemming from the fact that the things he "saw" are things he has been taught all his life by his preacher father and the rest of his family. You know how you think you have the memory of something, but it turns out your memory is just of seeing a picture of it, or a family member describing the event? That's what this is. It is amazing to me that people are latching onto this as if it is finally the true explanation they have been searching for, i.e a 4 year old said it, therefore it must be true. (??) It is giving false hope to people about having a big family reunion one day in heaven.The Bible says that the righteous will possess the earth and will reside forever UPON IT. Also the meek will inherit THE EARTH. The Lord's prayer: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven. Not IN HEAVEN, on EARTH! Why would the Bible make such a big deal about a resurrection if everyone is already where they are supposed to be when they die? If you instantly go to heaven when you die, then where are you resurrected to on the Lord's day?
This book obviously filled a need for people who have lost loved ones, especially children, and that in itself is a good thing. But if you choose to believe in the Bible, you have to admit it is not based on scripture.
Everett wrote: "Emily wrote: "This book is AMAZING! I don't understand why people don't think this is real. Heaven is FOR REAL! One day we are all going to face Christ. Most four year olds don't talk about m..."Read your Bible, moron. People don't go to heaven when they die. They return to the dust. Say the Lord's prayer very slowly to yourself - your KINGDOM COME, (your will be done) ON EARTH as it is in heaven. NOT in HEAVEN, ON EARTH. What is so hard to understand about this. YOU DON'T GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE. Period. Do the math, people, don't drink the kool aid.
I am a child of God and so are you. Please treat others as you would want to be treated.
im confused. a lot of revelation is talking about heaven. How we will live there one day with Jesus, what it will b like and such. How can you say that we dont go to heaven when we die? i mean theres no biblical basis that we will stay on earth when we die. id understand it if u were athiest but if u arent then what??
caro, there is actually nothing in Revelation about living in heaven. The entire book is about a military conquest to usher in a new age on earth. Read it carefully: multiple times it describes how the New Jerusalem floats down from heaven to replace the one just destroyed, and everybody lives happily ever after therein. It's possible to interpret Revelation spiritually, and imagine that it's really about going to heaven, but that's not what it says.
well new jerusalem is pretty much heaven right?
that depends on how you read it, caro. As I said, in Revelation, it's not. Not at all. It is a new city on earth.most Christians, however, prefer to read Revelation "spiritually", and align it with what they believe about going to heaven. The New Jerusalem becomes a typology, a description of heaven described in earthly terms.
We could argue next about what John really meant when he wrote it, but that's another story entirely. Suffice it to say that Jews believed in an earthly redemption, coupled with a bodily resurrection, and Revelation reads like a Jewish book, but Gentile Christians, with their Greek influence, had loftier ideas. We don't know what John believed.
If you think everything is a lie in this book, then you should go to youtube and search up "Heaven is For Real interview".
that was a great video! i saw it :D
Kiki wrote: "If you think everything is a lie in this book, then you should go to youtube and search up "Heaven is For Real interview"."Okay, I watched the video. I'm assuming you meant the one from the Today show, as that is what pops up first on YouTube. How is it supposed to sway me? If anything, Colton admits he doesn't remember that much anymore, yet throughout the book the dad supposedly keeps pulling new details about heaven from him as the years go by. So when did Colton officially stop remembering? When the book went to press?
And in the book they say that Colton's sister knew about the miscarriage....which opens the door to the possibility that she told him about the dead baby in mommy's tummy. My favorite part of the Today show video, however, was when Colton was describing his grandpa in heaven, and he didn't look anything like the picture they were showing. Whoops!
Colton pointed to a younger picture of the grandfather saying that was him. It is said that we return to a younger age in heaven after a certain period of time.
Patricia wrote: "Colton pointed to a younger picture of the grandfather saying that was him. It is said that we return to a younger age in heaven after a certain period of time."Well, that may be what happened in the book, but not on the Today show piece, which was supposed to sway the Colton skeptics but was, IMO, amazingly content-free.
Did you read Embraced by the Light? That was an adult's experience and recounting of the event. Colton's experience, whatever it was, was interpreted and filtered by the subjective mind of his father, which is the fault I find with the Burpos' account.
Mandy wrote: "Kiki wrote: "If you think everything is a lie in this book, then you should go to youtube and search up "Heaven is For Real interview"."Okay, I watched the video. I'm assuming you meant the one..."
Okay, think about when Todd compares the Scripture, and to what Colton was saying. Also, there is no way, a four year old could make up a conversation about death that is so deep.
Well Kiki I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. The book worked for you, but I thought the Pastor/Dad read into a lot of what Colton said. Maybe Colton had a near death experience, maybe he spoke of it once or twice, but most of what was in the book seemed to be a case of confirmation bias, where the Dad would look for the scripture that could confirm whatever came out of Colton's mouth. Plus, I think Colton enjoyed the attention he received whenever he said something about his experience. And I didn't think there was anything deep about anything Colton said.
Patricia wrote: "Colton pointed to a younger picture of the grandfather saying that was him. It is said that we return to a younger age in heaven after a certain period of time."If it were true that we go to heaven when we die, which it's not, then we wouldn't be any "age" - we'd be spirit creatures, invisible, with no body.
Mandy wrote: "Well Kiki I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. ..."I guess.. yeah, people have different opinions
I found it a nice story, but I also think the little boy was influenced by his very religious life. I thought the descriptive wording was very much told from Dad's religious influence. I think Colton experienced something but that Dad expounded on it for verification for himself.
I totally believe the book because he actually went up in heaven and saw all those things. Plus their are many other books like that so yeah how can anyone not believe it!!!
you have to BELIEVE!!
People are crazy if they don't believe! It's right in front of your eyes!!!
Uh, yeah. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. ON EARTH as it is in heaven. There is no big family reunion waiting for you in heaven. Dust you were and to dust you will return. This book is bunk. Don't drink the Kool aid.
Maria wrote: "Uh, yeah. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. ON EARTH as it is in heaven. There is no big family reunion waiting for you in heaven. Dust you were and to dust you will return. This book is bunk...."AND YOU KNOW HOW??????????????????? YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brandon wrote: AND YOU KNOW HOW??????????????????? YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!Um....and you have?
No I have not been to heaven. The Bible says that mankind was meant to live ON EARTH. "The meek shall inherit THE EARTH"
"The righteous themselves will possess THE EARTH and they shall reside forever UPON IT". Psalms 37:29
"The dead are conscious of nothing at all - when they die, on that day their thoughts do perish".
"The soul that is sinning, it itself will DIE" Ezekiel 18:4 (not live on somewhere else).
And on and on, ad infinitum (or ad nauseum).
I didn't make it up - it's in the Bible.
Maria wrote: "No I have not been to heaven. The Bible says that mankind was meant to live ON EARTH. "The meek shall inherit THE EARTH"
"The righteous themselves will possess THE EARTH and they shall reside ..."
And the BIBLE is real.
Yes it is. So if the Bible says that humans will reside forever on the earth (as it is in heaven - NOT IN HEAVEN)- then why do so many people think they are going in through the pearly gates when they die?Can they not read?
Not impressed at all.
Kiki, you sound like a very sincere person. But please, think about it carefully. I know you probably recite the Lords Prayer at least once a day. Listen to the words:The Lords Prayer: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven. Not IN HEAVEN.
The Bible says that mankind was meant to live ON EARTH.
"The meek shall inherit THE EARTH"
"The righteous themselves will possess THE EARTH and they shall reside forever UPON IT". Psalms 37:29
"The dead are conscious of nothing at all - when they die, on that day their thoughts do perish".
"The soul that is sinning, it itself will DIE" Ezekiel 18:4 (not live on somewhere else).
John 5:28 & 29 describes a resurrection of all the dead from their memorial tombs. If they are still in their tombs, how are they also in heaven? And if they are in heaven immediately upon dying, then why would they need to be resurrected?
Just because you have been taught something all your life doesn't mean it is true. Think for yourself and come to a logical conclusion.
Also, by the way, you may want to research that "cross" thing. Criminals in Jesus's day were hung on STAKES for their deaths. No record of any crosses. The stake "miraculously" turned into a "cross" when the Catholics wanted to convert some Taoists to Christianity and the Taoists refused to give up their main idol, a giant "T" (also a phallic symbol). The Catholics gave in and lowered the bar of the T a little (t) thus the "cross".
I loved this book... gave it to my 24 year old son who lost his older brother when he was 5. When he gave it back to me all he said was that 'it changed my life'...God works in mysterious ways.
I do not agree with you in anyway. First off I absoltuely loved the book. I dont think anyone would use an experiance like that just too make money. Since society is turning against God more and more everyday. I think that maybe because of media some situations could've been stretched a bit but in no way do I believe that it was all made up. God put this book out there for a reason and he wants us to know that Heaven does exist and everyone is meant to go there.
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