Boy Who Came Back From Heaven Lied

10-Year-Old Admits He Lied About Coming Back From Heaven

A child author whose family profited off a book where he described dying and meeting Jesus in heaven is recanting his story.

10-year-old Alex Malarkey recently admitted that he made the ENTIRE thing up because he “thought it would get him attention.”

SMFH…

RawStory reports:

The subject of the top-selling Christian book The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven has recanted his story about life after death, prompting bookstores to pull it from their shelves, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

“I did not die. I did not go to Heaven,” Alex Malarkey said in a statement published on the Christian site Pulpit and Pen. “I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible.

People have profited from lies, and continue to. They should read the Bible, which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible.”

Malarkey and his father, Kevin Malarkey, wrote the book, which was published in 2010. According to Publishers Weekly, 112,386 hardcover copies of the book were sold that year alone.

“It gives us insight into a whole realm of reality that we don’t think much about,” Tyndale House Publishers chief Mark Taylor said following its release.

Both Tyndale and the Christian retailer Lifeway Books announced on Thursday that they would stop selling the book following Alex Malarkey’s statement.

The story was promoted at the time as an account of Malarkey’s encounter with “angels that took him through the gates of heaven” after a 2006 car accident left the boy in a coma.

He was 6 years old at the time of the accident, and was paralyzed as a result of his injuries.

Isn’t it ironic that this kid’s last name is MALARKEY???SMH…at him fooling all these people.