In 2004, six-year-old Alex Malarkey and his father, Kevin, were in a horrifying car accident. According to his father, things looked so bleak at the scene of the accident that they were advised to call the coroner for Alex. The boy was in a coma for two months, and it wasnâ??t really expected he would survive. But Alex did survive, and eventually related a startling tale that brought hope and wonder to his family â?? especially to his father Kevin, who along with Alex penned the now-famous book The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World (Tyndale, 2010).
The book offers a remarkable account of what heaven is like, with the promise that many (but not all) of us will make it there. But as news outlets have widely reported, Alex has publicly announced that he made it all up.
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