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"The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.

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"The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 8:32 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Romney is screwed after his 47% comment and Jeb Bush is going to have problems running now that his own mother said "We don't need another Bush in the White House"

Oh.

I thought that was a reference to Hillary.

Sosorry . . .
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 8:40 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 2:32 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:
(January 16, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Godschild Wrote: Many in the Christian community never took this seriously, yes some did, I for one dismissed it the first time I heard about it.

GC

What about the following:

90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
23 Minutes in Hell - Bill Wiese
I Went to Hell - Kenneth Hagen
To Heaven and Back - Mary Neal
My Time in Heaven - Sigmund Richard
My Journey to Heaven - Marvin J. Besteman
Waking up in Heaven - Crystal McVea


Are these taken seriously by the "Christian community"? Do you dismiss them also?

If you do or do not dismiss them, what is the criteria you are using?

Don't forget: "My Dream of Hell" - Drich.

I'm sure GC "dismissed" that one, too.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 8:55 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 6:58 pm)dyresand Wrote:
(January 16, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I love Hitchens too, but titling his one book "The Portable Atheist".......HOLY FUCK! You need a forklift to lift that book. The Yellow Pages looked at it and said "DAMN!" I threw my back out lifting it. "Portable" my ass.

you need a semi too take all the parts of the book with you.
i opted for the 1TB ebook copy.

Just a Semi? I bet if you put that book on a space shuttle and tried to launch you'd crash the damn thing.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 9:01 pm (This post was last modified: January 16, 2015 at 9:01 pm by Roxy904.)
Of course, it's BS. I have vague memories from about about kindergarten to third grade of seeing people or things, and building these strange, long, intricate stories about. (Hell, I still do that.) A child who went through trama would of course choose a false reality instead of a painful one.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 9:10 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 9:01 pm)Roxy904 Wrote: A child who went through trama would of course choose a false reality instead of a painful one.

A child that age wouldn't come up with these details on his own. There's been some serious abusive mindfucking involved.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 9:14 pm
Probably. But, honestly, I don't really know that much about this... His parents definitely had a powerful influence on him though.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 17, 2015 at 3:48 pm
See this? This is my shocked face. :-|
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 19, 2015 at 1:47 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 10:52 am)Davka Wrote: Little Alex, subject of the bestselling (in Christian bookstores at least) book The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, has admitted that he made the whole thing up.

Quote:"An Open Letter to Lifeway and Other Sellers, Buyers, and Marketers of Heaven Tourism, by the Boy Who Did Not Come Back From Heaven."

Please forgive the brevity, but because of my limitations I have to keep this short.

I did not die. I did not go to Heaven.

I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue to. They should read the Bible, which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible.

It is only through repentance of your sins and a belief in Jesus as the Son of God, who died for your sins (even though he committed none of his own) so that you can be forgiven may you learn of Heaven outside of what is written in the Bible…not by reading a work of man. I want the whole world to know that the Bible is sufficient. Those who market these materials must be called to repent and hold the Bible as enough.

In Christ,

Alex Malarkey."

What a testimony to the gullibility of True BelieversTM!

Seriously folks - you should have been at least a little suspicious when you saw that his last name is Malarkey, now shouldn't you?

Thinking

Ah, the human brain and its wonderful ability to believe what it desperately wants to be true. Thet thar shore is some intellergint de-sign, yupyupyup.

This made my day. Thank you for sharing. That's fucking hilarious.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 19, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Funny but sad at the same time. Humans love fantasy when it comes to religion and do not value skepticism when it comes to religion.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 19, 2015 at 4:51 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 3:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Funny but sad at the same time. Humans love fantasy when it comes to religion and do not value skepticism when it comes to religion.

I love fantasy alright the kind in the AO section of the book store.
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