Book Review

I'm not to sure how I feel about this book. Being one who believes in a pre-earth life, I still have many questions about this book, and have a hard time accepting a divine origin or mandate behind its writing as it claims. Saying that though I read it quickly and will most likely read it again prayerfully to sift the wheat from the tares of it's contents.

Some issues that I have with this book as a reliable source of anything divine are:

• It fails to follow Gods Law of Witnesses. (Deut 17:26)
• Mr Roy Mills seems to have felt told to write it when he was at an age that many of his childhood stories couldn't be confirmed.
• He failed to keep a journal of these experiences as they happened, or as he "remembered" them. He states that he never wrote them down until this book. He may really just have a good imagination, or have drawn on source material from other Near Death Experiences and applied it too our pre-earth life.

Saying that there were elements of the book that would seem to conflict with Mr. Roy Mills Southern Baptist background that would agree more with how I believe, these I found most interesting and made me want to look into a few things a little more closely. Some examples of what I felt was right:

• Mr. Mills describes flowers as "intelligence's" and describes an ability to communicate with all intelligence.
• Mr Mills describes a distinction between the Father and the Son, being two separate individuals. However he fails to follow the description in Heb 1:3 of the Son being in the express[exact, precise] image of the Father.
  
• Mr. Mills use of "councils" in heaven was interesting
• Mr. Mills description of the architecture of Heaven I did find most inspiring, there was much of his descriptions that I believe could be true.

There is a lot of information in this book that might be true, or could be the result of a very vivid imagination. as a whole though the book is meant to uplift and inspire us to love one another and regardless of any degree of truthfulness it is worth the read because it does in fact seek to help us believe in Christ and love one another as he did.