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Anyway, I stumbled on this little clip<\/a> about a boy who has written a book in which he claims he visited heaven.\u00a0 You can almost hear the beer blowing out of people\u2019s noses in laughter, particularly from our Brights who know there\u2019s no such thing as God or heaven.\u00a0 Those are the ones who faint in awe at such stellar claims as those by Steven Hawking that the universe simply formed from absolute nothingness with the help of gravity \u2013 which keen observers quickly noted is not nothing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not saying I take his word for it.\u00a0 The idea that his grandfather had wings in his vision suggests a certain level of informed interpretation of events.\u00a0 I also know that when you are down, sick, and hurting you can envision things that can be explained in other ways.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I don\u2019t know he is merely interpreting things.\u00a0 And if he saw things he couldn\u2019t otherwise\u00a0know, that\u2019s good enough for me to put it on the \u2018we can\u2019t explain it outside of the realm of faith and belief\u2019 shelf.\u00a0 Being a believer in God, I am happy to say there are things we can\u2019t explain, that miracles happen, and that simply having a logical explanation \u2013 if there is one at all \u2013 doesn\u2019t mean the \u2018rational\u2019 theory presented is true.\u00a0 It may be the kid went to heaven.\u00a0 They are, after all, the ones who Jesus pointed to in order to illustrate how we must be to enter there ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"