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A Brave and Biblical Letter

Last Sunday I mentioned in passing the foolishness of certain "trip to heaven" books available today in evangelical bookstores.  This week a brave young man who was the principal character in one of those books published a godly response to his own supposed story.  By the way, this same young man is still confined to a wheelchair due to the injuries he sustained in the accident that supposedly took him to heaven.  I hope you applaud his honesty and bravery (and theology) as much as I do.

An Open Letter to Lifeway and Other Sellers, Buyers, and Marketers of Heaven Tourism, by the Boy Who Did Not Come Back from Heaven
Please forgive the brevity, but because of my limitations I have to keep this short.
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. 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.
It is only through repentance of your sins and a belief in Jesus as the Son of God, who died for your sins (even though he committed none of his own) so that you can be forgiven may you learn of heaven outside of what is written in the Bible . . . not by reading a work of man. I want the whole world to know that the Bible is sufficient. Those who market these materials must be called to repent and hold the Bible as enough.
In Christ,
Alex Malarkey

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