On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 2:53:40 PM UTC-6, palsing wrote:

On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 12:35:55 PM UTC-7, Gary Harnagel wrote:

https://art-soulworks.com/pages/prin...peace-painting

In rebuttal I offer...

https://art-soulworks.com/collections/jesus-artwork

... where, as a True Believer, you can spend up to $3300 for your very own
copy of Akiane Kramarik's paintings, a really nice incentive to pull the wool
over your eyes, don't you think?

36" x 48" is a bit BIG, don't you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Is_for_Real

From that Wiki article... "By April 2012, more than one million ebooks had
been sold,[1] and more than 10 million copies had been sold by 2014.[2] A
feature film based on the book was released on April 16, 2014, earning $101
million at the box office.[3]"

Pretty good reason to 'make up' a story, right?

So you go for the hoax explanation. Suspicious type, I guess.

"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given
idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths
to be eternal and immutable." - H. L. Mencken

This wasn't true of primitive Christianity. It is generally true of
so-called Christianity today because Constantine put the last nail in the
coffin of the original religion.

"There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any
person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be
until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose
coming I am seeking." -- Roger Williams