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The Heaven Is for Real controversy intensified in 2015 when a teenager who’d made claims similar to Colton’s admitted that he’d lied. In the wake of this scandal, Colton—then aged around 16—posted a statement on his website, acknowledging that some people doubted he was telling the truth.
On 13 January 2015, Alex Malarkey (not, as many believed, Colton Burpo) sent an open letter to Christian publishers recanting his claims and confessing that he fabricated the story about visiting...
It was also on the leading edge of a boomlet of “heaven tourism” stories in Christian publishing, including Heaven Is for Real, a memoir about 4-year-old Colton Burpo’s experience that came...
Updated July 15 2020, 5:08 p.m. ET. Source: Netflix. Does heaven really exist? According to Colton Burpo, it definitely does and he knows because he’s been there. When Colton was 4 years old, he suffered a burst appendix and was admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery.
Colton Burpo, the subject of the book-turned-movie "Heaven is for Real," says he stands by his story and that Jesus "really, really loves you," just days after another boy, Alex Malarkey, who had also claimed to have visited heaven and had a book based on his experience, revealed that he lied.
Todd Burpo likewise admits, “We’d never received any kind of report saying Colton had ever been clinically dead,” but believes his son is one of those “people who had seen heaven without dying,” like Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:2–4 and John in Revelation 4:1–3 (79–80).
Heaven is also a great place to return from. It was for 4-year-old Colton Burpo, whose recollection of his time there became the 2010 book “Heaven Is for Real,” which sold 10 million copies ...
Their sin is not a moral one—they are not lying. Their sin is an epistemic one: credulity (i.e., a lack of basic critical thinking). A Brief Recap. For those who don’t know, here is what happens....
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is a 2010 New York Times best-selling Christian book written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. The book documents the report of a near-death experience by Burpo's three-year-old son Colton.
At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong...