Colton Burton was close to death when he was 4 years old. The revelations he gave after his recovery shocked all believers in God. Seventh Day heard the testimony of the 16-year-old in May 2018. The director of the program, Manuel Teodoro, He visited the town of Imperial, Nebraska, in the United States, to learn about its history.
“I remember on the x-rays there were three holes in my son’s abdomen,” said Todd Burton, the child’s father. In March 2003, the child suffered peritonitis and was immediately taken to the health center.Due to an infection in his abdomen, he had to be referred for priority surgery. His parents were given no hope that their son was still alive.
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Five hours after the operation, A nurse appeared and told the family that “she did not believe in God, that she did not know what had happened, but that this had been a miracle.”Doctors didn’t think the boy would survive, but he did. After his recovery, Colton told his parents a strange revelation.
“He says something like, ‘Dad, I saw you in a room by yourself, you were yelling at God, and you were praying,’ and I said, ‘How do you know that?’ and he said, ‘Dad, I was right there on top of you, looking at you, I could see you,’” said the father, who said, astonished, that he did not know how he could have known that information without being present.
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“I can’t change people’s opinions. They have their opinions and I have mine. They can believe what they want and I know very well what I saw,” Colton assured. What he experienced in 2003 began to come out more clearly in the months after his brush with death. He never stopped talking about his extraordinary and mysterious experience. His message was always the same: when he died, for a few minutes he felt like he had traveled to a paradise.
He revealed that he saw a sister who was not the one he knew, but a who died in her mother’s belly when she had a miscarriage, before Colton was born. A topic his parents never told him about.
In addition, he described what Jesus was like, his father’s hobby was so great that he collected thousands of sacred images so that Colton could tell him which of them he resembled. One day he was stunned to see a portrait called ‘The Prince of Peace’ that was painted by a Catholic girl in the Middle East who had also had a similar experience to him. Colton stated that That was the Jesus he saw and who “can’t wait to return.”
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What do the experts say from the science?
He was only a 4-year-old boy and it was almost impossible for him to lie, which is why the news spread in such a short time among the entire population. Some scientists believe that these hallucinations are creations of our brain, especially due to lack of oxygen. However, they consider that there is no tangible proof that heaven exists, they classify it as a “state of mind”.
“In situations similar to even these cases we are talking about, They can be reproduced with electrical stimulation in the brain or by some substances such as ketamine that cause sensations close to death or those of experiences of leaving the body or of meeting loved ones or characters related to religion,” said Ferney Rodríguez, at that time, president of the Association of Atheists of Colombia.
But what happens to that consciousness when we die? According to contemporary science, there is nothing to prove that it can continue after death. However, several people around the world who have had close contact with death claim that it is possible, as Colton found out at the age of 4.
