NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The publishing arm of the Nashville based Southern Baptist Convention has stopped selling popular accounts of the afterlife like "Heaven is for Real" and "90 Minutes in Heaven" at its national chain of Lifeway Christian Bookstores.
Last summer, Southern Baptists at their annual convention warned that such books and films can lead people astray with "personal testimonies that cannot be corroborated" and sometimes conflict with Scripture.
They overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring "the sufficiency of biblical revelation over subjective experiential" accounts of heaven and hell.
Lifeway spokesman Marty King says that resolution was taken into consideration and Lifeway stopped ordering personal afterlife accounts last summer. Now, he says, "the remaining heaven visitation items have been removed from our stores and website and will not be replenished."