In fact, I started sharing my story with my friends and people in our town way before there was a book called Heaven is for Real."īurpo says he hopes that his story would continue to point people to Jesus. "I wanted to tell people about my experience. "People may have their doubts about my story, but the thing is, I wasn't coaxed into doing this," he adds. "I just wanted to take a second and let everyone know that I stand by my story found in my book 'Heaven is for Real,'" Burpo says. His story is similar to Malarkey's claims in the book, The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven. "I know there has been a lot of talk about the truth of other Heaven stories in the past few days," says Burpo on his website.īurpo says he went to Heaven, met Jesus and saw Mary and the angels when he underwent emergency surgery to have his appendix removed when he was four. Colton Burpo, the subject of the book-turned-movie "Heaven is for Real," says he stands by his story and that Jesus "really, really loves you," just days after another boy, Alex Malarkey, who had also claimed to have visited heaven and had a book based on his experience, revealed that he lied.
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