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 Awesome and Truthful!!!! September 1, 2010
Cindy J Guckenberger
No one who belive that the BIBLE is true can watch or listen to this testimony and not be changed!!!!
 Bill is confused about even the most basic and clear Christian doctrine... August 31, 2010
Lyndon Unger (Waldheim, Saskatchewan)
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Well, Bill Wiese claims to have gone to Hell for 23 minutes and claims that this is the record of that trip, with various messages for "the church".
Sadly, Bill Wiese is so utterly incorrect on even the most clear biblical facts, this book is demonstrably theological fiction. I'm not going to waste time clearing up the plethora of strange, incorrect and downright nonsense statements in the book. I will say a few things that, if true, should cause any half-brained believer to toss this book out the window.
I'm not saying that Bill didn't experience some sort of vision like he records in the book. I'm also not saying that he didn't experience what he even claims he did. Bill possibly had an amazing experience and saw amazing things.
I am definitely claiming that his interpretation of what happened to him is utterly, demonstrably, inescapably, untrue for the following reasons:
1. Bill claims to have gone to Hell and seen demons working there, maintaining prison cells and whatnot.
Several Problems:
a. Demons don't rule, or even work, in "Hell". Revelation 20:10 says that the Devil, the beast and the false prophet (and therefore the Devil's lesser co-workers), will be throne into "Hell". It's not a place of demonic employment, but a place of demonic suffering. The Devil doesn't rule in "Hell"; this idea is from movies and Greek mythology, not the Bible. Matthew 8:29 suggests that the demons know they're going to a place of suffering...not a new job in a celestial prison.
b. "Hell" is only ever described as a place of fiery torment, and Gehenna is a lake of fire. There's never mention of prison cells, or organization of any sort. Again, this idea of "Hell" comes from popular media and culture and is nowhere to be found in the Bible at all.
2. Bill Wiese claims to have gone to "Hell", where he saw wicked people.
One major problem:
The judgment hasn't happened yet and the wicked aren't in "Hell". Rev. 20:11-15 suggests, RATHER strongly, that if Bill could have possibly have gone to "Hell", it would have been empty. The final judgment hasn't occured yet and the place of eternal torment doesn't have a single person in it...yet.
Now, the astute reader has notice that I've put the word 'Hell' in quotations, and for good reason. The Bible distinguishes between "Hell" and "the lake of fire", and they're not the same thing at all. I definitely didn't get the sense that Bill Wiese knows that at all; he talked like he was talking about being in the place of eternal torment, not the place of temporary holding before the final judgment. I'm likely suspecting that Bill Wiese doesn't have the theological sophistication to recognize the difference between the two. He doesn't make any differentiation between the holding place of the wicked and final suffering place of the wicked. When Bill talks about "Hell", he's talking about where the wicked are for eternity. That place isn't even called "Hell".
3. Bill Wiese claims to have come back from Hell.
Epic theological problem.
If Bill Wiese is a Christian, and Hell is the place of God's inmitigated wrath against sinners, then there's no possible way for him to go to Hell, let alone come back. 1 Thess. 1:10 says that Jesus recuses Christians from God's coming wrath; that wrath is eternal torment in Hell. 1 Thess. 5:9 suggests that Christians are not appointed to suffer wrath, and if Bill claims to have suffered the unmitigated wrath of God against sin in Hell (which is the ONLY thing that occurs there) even for a second, God is a liar.
Bill Wiese went SOMEWHERE and saw SOMETHING, but he didn't go to Hell.
God's word is so clear about these things that the only realistic options are:
a. Bill Wiese has been demonically deceived (unknowingly)
b. Bill Wiese has been mislead by his pastor/spiritual influence in his life to claim these lies.
b. Bill Wiese is a knowing false teacher and will realize one day, far too late, how terribly "off" his vision was.
This book rings the theological gong with both hands.
Read at your own risk.
 23 Minutes in Hell... or perhaps a bad dream August 20, 2010
John Marrow
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With a heavy heart, I must give an honest review of this book. Before I begin, I want to start off by stating upfront that I am a born-again Christian, and I do believe that unbelievers who die without Christ will suffer eternal torment in Hell. However, with this said, I must say that I do not believe Bill Wiese' account.
I had heard about this book for quite some time before I had actually read it. At first I thought this was going to be a story about a man who wasn't a Christian, clinically died and went to Hell, came back to life and is now a Christian. Instead, I was surprised to find out that not only was Wiese already supposed to have been a Christian, but he didn't even die. Instead, he just went to bed at 3:00a.m. one night, fell into a pit and ended up in literal Hell. In this Hell he was tormented by demons, heat so intense that he should have been dead, and he witnessed a pit of fire where souls were being tormented. During his time in Hell, Wiese claims that he didn't know about God and had "forgotten" he was a Christian. He later supposedly gets rescued by Jesus and is told that he was purposely made to forget that he was a Christian. The entire reasoning behind this experience is so that Wiese can know that Hell exists and he can now tell others about it. He wakes back up in his living room where he fell asleep at 3:23a.m.
Right away, one would think that Wiese just had a nightmare, but Wiese is convinced that he had an out-of-body experience where his soul literally descended into Hell. Wiese insists that this wasn't just a dream.
This is all told in the first three chapters of the book, and the rest of the book is simply accounts of Wiese' evangelistic testimonies and answering a few questions about Hell. But the first three chapters are really the "highlight" of the book. In fact, I found myself getting bored after the third chapter, because the rest of it becomes testimonies of Wiese being invited to speak about his experience, and then the book going into answering standard philosophical questions about Hell that can be found in many other books.
The main problem I have with Bill Wiese' story is that it just simply isn't consistent with what the Bible teaches about how God operates. One of the claims Wiese says in his book is that God made him forget that he was a Christian while he was in Hell. On the contrary, the Bible teaches that God cannot lie, and therefore, I don't see how God would make Wiese "forget" that he is a Christian.
Also, in Luke 16:19-31 Jesus tells a story about a rich man who dies and ends up in Hell. The rich man becomes concerned that his family might end up in Hell too. So he asks if he can go and tell his family about Hell. And the response he received was, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead" (v. 31). So, knowing that Jesus told his story of the rich man, and the bible teaches that if someone isn't persuaded by the Scriptures, then they will not be persuaded by someone returning from the dead, why would Jesus send Wiese to Hell to basically do what Jesus himself says won't persuade unbelievers anymore than the Scriptures will? The simple answer is, Jesus wouldn't do that.
Another problem I have with Wiese's account is that Jesus said that anyone who believes in him will not see death (John 8:51).
After reading the book, I must admit that I am really disappointed. And while I am a born-again Christian who believes in the existence of Hell (and by that I mean eternal punishment, not annihilation), I must tell the truth of what I believe about this book. I had thought about not writing a review at all, but Christians need to stand on biblical truths, not lies. I'm still not even sure why Wiese is so convinced that he didn't just have a really bad dream... which is what I think he had if he's not just making this whole thing up.
DISTURBING!!! August 17, 2010
Shosh (NY United States)
What I find Most disturbing about this book is this.... That Mr. Wiese is making money off of this book of lies. I don't doubt that he was in hell, it's not my place to say if this part is true or not. But since he is obviously a "Christian" he feels that everyone just accepts his story as "truth". Why would a Judge risk his reputation by "judging" his own daughter? Isn't that a conflict of interest? Isn't that immoral? Isn't that illegal? But yet the author want's me to believe that the Judge passed sentence and paid the fine so his daughter would not go to jail. What an insult to my and everyone else's intelligence. Just because he can quote Bible text(which by the way so can I) does that mean his stories are truthful? I wish the Author told of his own life of sin (because we are all sinner's) and how he overcame this through the help of Jesus. VERY DISAPPOINTING!! I wish I saved my money. By the way, I wonder just what the Author is doing with the money he is making with the sale of this book? I guess that will be between him and the Lord when the time comes.
are you serious? August 8, 2010
Bodom J (Bethpage, TN United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
People actually believe this guy? Anyone who believes anything this man has to say is an idiot and should be thrown into the void of space. I can't believe that people are actually this ********* stupid. I feel sad for the human race.
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