But his description of what happened in between offered a compelling tale of life after death, including visions of angels and meeting Jesus. Johnson would spend the next two years trying to help Beth get out that message – that Alex’s story wasn’t real, that a child who had almost died in a car accident in 2004 had been pushed to expand upon a fairytale he’d told when he was six.įollowing the accident, Alex spent two months in a coma and woke up paralysed. “ because the book was a bestseller, no one in the evangelical publishing industry wanted to kill it.” “You’re right, this whole story is fabricated,” Johnson recalled Beth Malarkey telling him. But nobody else was listening to her or her son any more, so she called Johnson almost immediately. Beth and Alex had left a trail telling the truth all over the internet, even as The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven kept selling.
Praise for Heaven is for Real: "A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe.In Bellefontaine, Ohio, Alex Malarkey’s mother, Beth, was reading. With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton recounts his visit to heaven, describing: Meeting long-departed family members Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is, and how much God loves us How Jesus called Todd, Colton's father, to be a pastor The Battle of Armageddon Retold by his father, but using Colton's uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses." Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child. Colton also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, even though he had not yet learned to read. He talked of visiting heaven and described events that happened before he was born and how he spoke with family members he'd never met. "That's where the angels sang to me." Colton told his parents he left his body during an emergency surgery-and proved that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital during his operation. "Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. Heaven is For Real details what Colton saw and his family's journey towards accepting their young son had visited the afterlife. #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 11 million copies sold! When 4-year-old Colton Burpo emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven, his family doesn't know what to believe.
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