5/24/2023 0 Comments Burpo heaven![]() ![]() Obviously, John cared a lot about what is ‘true’, and desired to ‘test’everything that is said about the spiritual realm, which is something that we must continue to do today.īecause our faith is often challenged by culture, we can be quick to accept, consume, and believe anything that we feel validates our beliefs, especially when it gets made into big budget Hollywood movies. We are called to worship God in “spirit and truth” (John 4:24), and in doing that, His Word tells us, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone into the world” (1 John 4:1). My goal is not to make fun of people who read these books or to cause division within the Body of Christ, it is simply to draw attention to specific problems within perhaps the most well known of these books and offer a prescription for where we go from here. ![]() ![]() And evangelical Christians are buying them by the millions. ![]() These include, but are certainly not limited to going to heaven for 90 minutes, hell for 23 minutes, and any range of there-and-back-again stories that claim to reveal what’s just on the other side of the curtain of eternity. However, over the past several years there has been a surge in the number of books written that describe a wide range of alleged afterlife experiences. By Shane Pruitt – afterlife has always been and always will be a great business opportunity. ![]()
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