What of people who claim to have gone to heaven?

Lots of books seem to tell stories of those who claim to have gone to heaven.  Evangelical churches happily sponsor events for these individuals to speak.  However, the concept has just never sat quite right with me.  Today, Phil Johnson shares an article entitled The Burpo-Malarkey Doctrine, that basically expresses what I think about these experiences.  To be clear, I think people who have near death experiences experience something, but I do not think what they are reporting is a visit to heaven.  Johnson quotes John MacArthur:

For anyone who truly believes the biblical record, it is impossible to resist the conclusion that these modern testimonies—with their relentless self-focus and the relatively scant attention they pay to the glory of God—are simply untrue. They are either figments of the human imagination (dreams, hallucinations, false memories, fantasies, and in the worst cases, deliberate lies), or else they are products of demonic deception.

We know this with absolute certainty, because Scripture definitively says that people do not go to heaven and come back: "Who has ascended to heaven and come down?" (Proverbs 30:4). Answer: "No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man" (John 3:13, emphasis added). All the accounts of heaven in Scripture are visions, not journeys taken by dead people. And even visions of heaven are very, very rare in Scripture. You can count them all on one hand.

I would commend the whole thing to you.