Maybe I should say that its hard to not believe the story is somewhat true. It’s hard to not believe the story unless one assumes shameless co-conspirator fraud with a child. I read it on a flight between New York and San Francisco this past weekend. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how “reaaally big” God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit “shoots down power” from heaven to help us. Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. The family didn’t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. Here is a description from the publisher:Ī young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. You need to understand a little bit about the book. For those who are suspicious about Amazon reviews, there are too many reviewers, at 373, to think this is stuffed voting. Overall the book gets 4.5 out of 5 stars. But among readers at Amazon, the reviews are quite different. USA Today ranked it #2 among Non-Fiction books and #7 among all books on the market. It is #2 at Amazon among all books where it has held a position in the top 100 bestsellers for 73 days. As of this past Sunday, it was the New York Time’s #1 Bestseller in Non-Fiction Paperbacks and the #2 Bestseller among all Non-Fiction including Digital. The Akiane Prince of Peace? The book, Heaven is for Real? A kid who saw Jesus in heaven during some sort of purported near-death experience (NDE)? Really? And does this visionary picture look like the man in the Shroud? It turns out that the book is a sensation. The Akiane Jesus looks like the Turin Shroud. Later, he confirmed that Jesus looked like the Akiane Jesus. Four-year-old Colton Burpo left the hospital operating room and went heaven where he saw Jesus. STURP and now the Shroud Science Group with all its scientific books and journals cannot begin to match the power of this story.

I just finished reading “Heaven is for Real.” I am thinking that the Akiane Prince of Peace is very similar to the man in the Turin Shroud. Last week I received an email from a reader that threw me for a loop. Nonetheless, how it compares to the image on the Shroud of Turin might significantly impact how the public thinks about the authenticity of the shroud. It is quite okay to be skeptical about such visions. There is a new, very popular visionary picture of Jesus that many think must be accurate. Still More on Akiane’s Jesus, Heaven is for Real and the Man in the Shroud.More on Akiane’s Jesus, Heaven is for Real and the Man in the Shroud.Heaven is for Real, the Akiane Prince of Peace, the ISA Mosaic and the Shroud of Turin EASTER 2014: Important new open discussion on this blog:

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