God Is Good! Meet The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, Shares Sis Story With Jesus [Photo]
to heaven and met Jesus during a near death experience in 2004 is
recanting his story, claiming that he made it up in an effort to seek
attention.The startling admission from Alex Malarkey , whose story was
told in the 2010 book "The
Boy Who Came Back from
Heaven," written by both him and
his father, Kevin Malarkey, has led
publisher Tyndale House to pull
the text from print, NPR reported. The revelation emerged this
week after Malarkey reportedly
sent a letter to the Pen and Pulpit
blog in which he pointedly
admitted that the story was
concocted. "I did not die. I did not go to
Heaven. I said I went to heaven
because I thought it would get
me attention. When I made the
claims that I did, I had never read
the Bible," he wrote. "People have profited from lies, and
continue to. They should read the
Bible, which is enough. The Bible
is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot
be infallible." Malarkey went on in
the statement to share his belief
in Jesus and the central Christian
doctrine that Christ died for
humanity's sins, calling for those marketing the materials "to
repent and hold the Bible as
enough." The Boy who Came
Back from Heaven The Trent "The
Boy Who Came Back From
Heaven" recounted Malarkey's experience after surviving a car
accident when he was just 6
years old back in 2004. He fell into a coma, was paralyzed
and claimed in the book that he
visited heaven, according to the
Washington Post. "Alex awoke
from a coma with an incredible
story to share. Of events at the accident scene and in the hospital
while he was unconscious. Of the
angels who took him through
the gates of heaven itself," reads
a description of the book. "Of the
unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. And
most amazing of all . . . of meeting
and talking to Jesus." With these details now in dispute
by the book's young author,
Tyndale House issued a
statement to the Washington Post
on Thursday claiming that it plans
to "take the book and related ancillary products out of print."
Others like LifeWay plan to also
stop selling the book. Critics have
long decried so-called "heavenly
tourism books" — texts that
purport to recount trips to heaven during near-death
experiences, claiming that the
details do not align with the Bible
and are contradictory. This
situation obviously adds fuel to
the fire.
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