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This isn't actually in align with the Bible at all.....
I am going to choose my words carefully with this, as I fully understand many readers of this book are trying to process tremendous grief and emotions when they pick it up to read. Therefore, I really don't want to be the wet blanket on an otherwise uplifting moment for someone who is struggling through a very rough time of his/her life. However, I have to say what others need to hear, in regards to the blatant fact that this is not at all nor can it be a Bible-based collection, and for a pastor to back it especially....Im troubled. Here's the deal. Right on the back, in bold letters, you will see "1 in 25 people will have a near death experience", leading you into the book right away, with all these stories from all these people of "heaven". Oh, isn't it just everything? And also somehow EXACTLY predictable for the individual's idea of heaven? But that's not what bothers me the most. In no feasible way, are all of these people who told these NDE stories, Jesus-confessing followers at the moment they 'die'. Not possible. Go outside and choose 25 people at random and youll be LUCKY to find more than a few. And yet, there's nothing but warm fuzzies and a Savior waiting, no Hell, no eternal damnation....yet Jesus, himself, said wide is path that leads to Hell, and also said its easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, all clearly reinforcing that Heaven is in fact as He says the narrow gate that "few will enter", but Im supposed to believe that every single person just somehow gets a pass, negating what Christ himself explicitly says in Scripture? You know, if one person had come back confessing they had gone to Hell, would people listen more than if they had another warm fuzzy 'I saw heaven' vision? Any Christian knows that Satan is the Father of Lies, and it is only logical that he would continue a lie to a nonbeliever that they don't need to change anything about the life they lived before their NDE, they are going to Heaven anyway! Right? Its deceit from the devil himself. In fact, we only have one account of someone who goes to Hell, when Jesus tells us about the rich man and Lazarus, and the rich man, in Hell, sees Lazarus in heaven, and pleads for someone, anyone, to go back to tell his family how terrible Hell is so they will know to change their hearts and lives and do whatever it takes to never end up where he did, but Jesus tells him they had the writings and teachings of the Scriptures and the prophets, and that should suffice...yet he insists, if someone comes back from the dead, SURELY, they will listen...and Jesus says, if they will not listen to the teachers and the prophets, they will neither listen to someone who comes back from the dead. Proceed with great caution. This book, while meaning well, is a lie.
November 2020 · Books · verified purchase
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