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Alex Malarkey, 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven,' Admits He Made It All Up
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Skwim
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"This book, The Boy who Came Back from Heaven, has powers, it opened up a whole new world to me. Just the way the author, Kevin Malarkey, describes his experiences and thoughts during the time around the car accident, that caused his son to become a quadriplegic, made me realize that anything can happen to anyone and that what happens doesn't really matter, it is the way you deal with the situation that really matters. This is a very religious based book which is why it falls under the Christianity genre. It thoroughly describes what events happened, via the car accident, and what is the best way to deal with them. This book shows that the best way to deal with it is to confide in God. This is a life changing book.
This book is a true story and that is really what caught my eye when choosing this book. For most of the time Kevin Malarkey is telling the story. He explains what happened before the accident, during and after. The way the book is written, the people who where part of the story has their thoughts written at the bottom of most pages. Also, every other chapter is Alex's view of the accident. He usually doesn't have much to say about the accident but he has a lot to say about faith and God. With these three components the book makes you feel as if you were physically and emotionally there during the time of the accident.It is a very realistic book.
I would totally recommend this book to all faithful Christians and Catholics out there. I would even recommend it to non-Christians or Catholics too because then maybe you can see that God does exist and he does wonderful things. The Boy who Came Back from Heaven by Kevin and Alex Malarkey truly shows what God does for people in time of need. Out of a one to five scale, I would totally choose a five."
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This book is a true story and that is really what caught my eye when choosing this book. For most of the time Kevin Malarkey is telling the story. He explains what happened before the accident, during and after. The way the book is written, the people who where part of the story has their thoughts written at the bottom of most pages. Also, every other chapter is Alex's view of the accident. He usually doesn't have much to say about the accident but he has a lot to say about faith and God. With these three components the book makes you feel as if you were physically and emotionally there during the time of the accident.It is a very realistic book.
I would totally recommend this book to all faithful Christians and Catholics out there. I would even recommend it to non-Christians or Catholics too because then maybe you can see that God does exist and he does wonderful things. The Boy who Came Back from Heaven by Kevin and Alex Malarkey truly shows what God does for people in time of need. Out of a one to five scale, I would totally choose a five."
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I was encouraged to read this by many Christian friends of mine who were profoundly moved by his story. I never read it and still don't intend to. But I wonder how this new revelation will impact them.
Skwim
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Christians can be a liar-liar-pants-on-fire, just as much as anyone else.
Sultan Of Swing
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I've read that it's had at least one million sales. I believe it was popular with your everyday mainstream evangelical, people who I see leaning more toward moral therapeutic deism.
More conservative churches (which still does make up a sizeable portion of today's evangelicals) are usually very skeptical and dismissive of such accounts to begin with as unbiblical, so this announcement doesn't really affect them (including myself), though I am interested to see its impact on other believers.
Accounts of going to heaven sorta miss what heaven is all about, being with God, not great landscapes and chilling with the angels. Not to mention the end game of Christian theology is our own bodily resurrection here on earth, where there will be a new heaven and new earth, etc.
Sultan Of Swing
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Personally I hope it gives them a good kick up the backside to rely more on the Bible and measure other texts by it and more carefully, but that's just coming from me as a fellow Christian.
I'd sure hate to be that kid right now. His parents and entire family and just about everyone he knew must have been absolutely LIVID when he broke the news.
Skwim
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Yeah, the cash flow has dried up.
Not to mention they all look like absolute fools.