Heaven is For Real - Colton Burpo

Colton, you have inspired me.

Read the book brill and truly believable and amazin story!

I have two children in heaven, and when Colton spoke his words really touched my heart it was if my children were speaking to me, Heaven is real and your going to like it! God bless xx.

Further down in this conversation thread, under a post by Terri Huffman Morgan are responses which I made to a post by Tim Tyson who insisted that animals go to heaven. Tim Tyson has restored my comments (except for one) after I protested at their disappearance and for that at least I have to give him credit. However he has now removed his own comments, making mine seem a little disconnected. Though I have copies of his comments, I feel it would be invidious to replicate them as Mr Tyson has taken the decision to remove them himself, but you can infer what he has said from my replies. Perhaps Mr Tyson has changed his mind and no longer wishes to support his former belief, but he has not stated as much. Our exchange continued via Private message on Facebook. That was until he barred me from messaging him. Since I have not had the opportunity to reply to that, I am posting it here. Not because I wish to embarrass him any more than necessary, but because I think he should read my reply. It is important, that in pursuit of the truth we are not satisfied to simply assert our own truths without foundational support and I see that this channel is full of that. People are so desperate to believe in something that they will ignore all reason and evidence to the contrary. It is important to challenge beliefs, even deeply held ones because if you are really interested in truth, then it is to be found, not in what you would prefer to be the case but in what actually is. The post below is my last reply to Tim and would have been by private message, were not that option no longer available to me:

Sorry it’s taken me a few days to get back to you, Tim. To be honest, I’ve not been sleeping well lately, agonising over your words about hell. It really frightened me. You see, when someone as theologically astute as yourself suggests that a person is going to Hell, well, you just have to take that seriously don’t you? You have certainly proved yourself a deep thinker, a powerful debater and venerable biblical Scholar; and as one who has so clearly demonstrated your expertise on the eternal destination of the souls of men, monkeys and mice, how could I but quake in my boots at the fate you guarantee for my own soul? In fact, I’d put this anguish right up there with my fears about an equally guaranteed destiny in an Islamic Hell, Hades, Sheol, the ancient Egyptian underworld or, worst of all, Zoroastrian Hell – which makes Dante’s vision look like a picnic. I’ve no doubt you will understand what I’m experiencing when you consider your own anxiety at the prospect of going to hell as an infidel of Islam. Fortunately for you, your scholarly labours and close friendship with all three members of your monotheistic God have given you assurance that you and your little doggies are going to be frolicking around in paradise for a period of time that would bore a tortoise in a coma. Meanwhile all of your enemies - anyone who either disagrees with you or God (which amounts to the same thing– since God thinks exactly like you) – will be languishing in infinite agony for committing finite sins. Sins such as pointing out the moral inadequacies and bankruptcy of reason characterising a fundamentalist believer. By the way is ‘Pearls before swine’ the only biblical quote you know? It’s the only one you have offered me and I can’t help but notice the delicious irony that arises from a full reading of Matthew 7;6 which doesn’t chime very well with pooches in paradise, does it?: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast yes your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”. Are you worried that I am going to rend you, Tim? No point in worrying... You have no pearls to cast and I have already rended you! As for 'penile envy'... the quality of your arguments has descended to a new low, if that were possible. Such playground prattle is not really going to redeem you on any count, least of all your intellectual ability. Besides which, the statement is (typically) nonsensical. I have never seen your penis, so how could I envy it? You may well BE a penis, but that is hardly an enviable condition. By the way, the contraction of “you are” is spelt “you’re”. You didn’t ask for my opinion, no. And this, among many fallacious things you have said, is a rare truism. However, you are none too shy at offering your own opinion on comment boards as though it is a God-given fact and it is my prerogative to challenge that. You have consistently shown that you cannot stand up to that challenge and employ low-handed tactics to slither out of it. That is what has raised my hackles. But I don’t hate. That is a waste of energy. Ask yourself who is dealing out the death threats here? You have expressed a gleeful anticipation of my eternal torture in hell... and called me a pig... So who is the hater? God Bless!

Heaven is real. Hell is real also.The only way into heaven is to have a personal relationship with Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior.

I believe this because I had a ruptured aneurysm, felt like I was drowning from the inside, I remember being put in the ambulance by the ems staff but I remember Jesus taking me out. I ask could he just hold me awhile because I was so tired. He said yes and we had other conversation and when I came thru my husband said I had been out for four days and the doctors thought I wasnt going to make it, but many people where praying for me. But I remember thinking like Colton how nice it was. I had no idea that I had what I thought was a few moments was four days. Jesus was so peaceful and comforting.

I'm happy for the effort that the medical staff put into saving this kid. Nothing more.

I loved this book " Heaven is for Real".

I loved this book! I would encourage everyone to read it...

ang pag asa ng mga tao ay ang pagkabuhay muli d2 sa lupa. mateo 5:5 isaias 45:18, gawa 24:15, Juan 11:25. read pls.

ang totoo niyan ano na ba ang nagawa nila sa gawain ng panginoon na magkaroon sila ng pribilihiyo na makaakyat sa langit? si haring david ay marami ng nagawa sinulat nya ang book of psalms, ipinaglaban nya ang bayan ng dios, itinayo ang templo sa jerusalem pero ayon sa acts 2:34 ay hindi sya umakyat sa langit..ipaliwanag pls...

walang kadudaduda may langit talaga pinatotohanan ito ng mga propeta at ni pang jesus mismo na nakasulat sa bibliya. ang pinagdududahan ko ay yang ganyang mga kwentong bata, kesyo nakaakyat na sa langit nakita si pang jesus, ay kwentong gas gas na. ang totoo nyan marami na ang nakaranas nyan hindi nalang nila ikinukwento kasi paimbabaw lang yang ganyan. kitam d2 mismo sa wall mo ang dasming nagsasabing nakita na nila ang langit at hinipo at ginamot pa sila ni pang jesus. madaling magkwento but to prove is another thing.

Thank you, Colton, for sharing your experience!

My son had a similar experience when he was 2 and a half. We were not church goers at the time but he told us that he went to visit God. He said that he sat at God's feet and played with his dog. My son is an animal lover and I believe that God was soothing Billy with that dog. At 2 1/2 years old he gave us great details about what the dog looked like and what God was wearing but could not see God's face. He said that God told him that it was time to go back to his parents and he said "No, I want to stay and play with your dog". Then he said that God took him by the hand (with the boo-boo on it), lifted him up and sent him home as God's dog smiled at him! We are now church going Christians!

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