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Heaven Tourism Books Pulled from Nearly 200 Christian Bookstores
Christianity Today ^ | March 25, 2015 | David Roach

Posted on 03/25/2015 9:57:02 AM PDT by Lee N. Field

LifeWay Christian Resources has stopped selling all "experiential testimonies about heaven" following consideration of a 2014 Southern Baptist Convention resolution on "the sufficiency of Scripture regarding the afterlife."

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The resolution, adopted by messengers to the SBC annual meeting in June, warned Christians not to allow "the numerous books and movies purporting to explain or describe the afterlife experience" to "become their source and basis for an understanding of the afterlife."

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TOPICS: Charismatic Christian; Current Events; Evangelical Christian
KEYWORDS: christians; eschatology; heaven; theology
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To: Gamecock

Lewis never claimed what he wrote in The Great Divorce was factual.


81 posted on 03/26/2015 2:33:00 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Excellent post. Thank you.


82 posted on 03/26/2015 2:54:50 AM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Still a great point.

"When Christ called his disciples, he called fishermen, he didn't call nobody from a qualified university."
Howard Finster

83 posted on 03/26/2015 3:02:32 AM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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