Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed on 12/29/2014 + 350 more book reviews

I read Immaculee Ilibagiza's book Left To Tell in 3 hours and was so fascinated by her story that I was excited to find out she's written a couple other books. I put this on my to-read list a while back and finally had the chance to read it.

This story is about the boy Segatshya who grew up on a poor farm in Rwanda. He heard the voice of Jesus talking to him in 1982 without ever knowing who Jesus was. He was illiterate and practiced paganism in his village though not devoutly. He had no idea about anything in regards to Jesus, but somehow he started to not only hear Him, but saw visions of Him.

I will say that at first in reading this I was hooked immediately to his story because I met Jesus in a dream when I was 4 or 5 and he healed me of my more than partial deafness that I had as well as my terrible speech abilities. I therefore am more open to accepting that Jesus appears to people since I literally saw Him myself. However, although these things were incredible to read about, I had a terrible time accepting this story simply because he states that Jesus said that all religions if they do right are following Him, while when Jesus was on earth, He stated that HE was the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE and that you could ONLY get to God the Father through believing in Him. Jesus also was very blunt with the Pharisees about not recognizing Him as the son of God based on all their knowledge that they should be more accepting of Him. I don't think that Jesus calling those who rejected him the "sons of devils" would slide away because a 12 year old boy stated that Jesus said all religions can go to heaven. That doesn't coincide with scripture. So I am skeptical. Plus I have a hard time with holding up Mary as if she is God herself when she was a vessel to bring forth the King.

The story was good and I definitely don't doubt Segatashya's belief in Jesus, I just don't know if who appeared to him was Jesus. . .however, his words were prophetic by warning the people to clean up their act or there would be blood and machete deaths everywhere, considering the genocide that happened there in 1994. Definitely was an interesting story.

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