Posted on 06/02/2012 2:25:23 PM PDT by NYer
Thanks for your testimony.
Indeed. A real piece of wisdom there.
Life after life? This Wyoming surgeon says she believes
As I lay dying a voice said: ‘Let’s go’ (the near-death experience of a cynical prof)
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Near-Death Experiences: 30 Years of Research - A neurosurgeon’s perspective
Near-Death Experiences: 30 Years of Research
Seeking Proof in Near-Death Claims (18 Hospitals to study mystery of near-death experiences)
Review of Life After Death: The Evidence
Who is the Being of Light Encountered in Near-Death Experiences
Doctor Claims He Has Evidence of the Afterlife
An Interview with Dinesh D’Souza on Life After Death: The Evidence
World's Largest-ever Study Of Near-Death Experiences
On the other hand... I'm not someone you would introduce to your children/grandchildren as the paragon of good behavior. ;)
I'm more the proof of salvation by grace.
/johnny
Oops. I’m going to have to get a new keyboard. The letters have worn off the E, T, R
reincarnation.
Wow. Beautiful. Thank you for what you do, and, I have a feeling you are pretty good at your job.
I just found it on Audible and downloaded it.
Excellent post, a wonderful story to tell.
“NDEs are NOT about reincarnation.”
Great links. I will take a look at these.
I really liked Dinesh D’Souza book Life After Death: The Evidence.
My question concerns the website of the author of this story. She seems to be promoting false doctrine from my perspective.
While I cannot cite an online reference, I do recall some of the earliest studies of the NDE stuff did indicate that the experience, though not universal in its occurrence, but it was universal throughout just about all religions and cultures.
The 19th centurians believed as fervently as we do in NDE that they could communicate with the dead. We in the 21st believe in the near death experiences, which have managed to become legitimate enough to earn an acronym. If it’s got an acronym it must be true. Tunnels of light, and few details beyond that. Gimme some details. Is it as boring there as it sounds? Why haven’t the dead communicated back to us? Did they communicate to Jesus? This skeptic’s view is let’s first find an explanation for the human (and animals’) dreams. One of these days perhaps we’ll understand it all, and I’m not saying that science will help us because science is as blind as we all are, but these days aren’t here yet.
Above is not a flame, just another question.
Not to start an argument, but the original Jewish and Chritian theology include references to reincarnation. It’s not as scary or outrageous as you’ve been lead to believe.
The problem with religions that are designed by men is that it quickly becomes politicized.
I am not trying to dismiss your views or start a fight. It’s just that any religion based on the words of books written many decades after things happened has to be looked at with skeptical eyes.
Angels are not human. You do not die and become an angel. No more than a duck dies and becomes a robin.
The battles in heaven were between the arch angels, (mike and his crew) and Satan’s gang.
We are just different species...so to speak.
Read “Evidence of the Afterlife” by Dr. Jeffrey Long. Great website. After every NDE story he provides his explanation and view.
I was reading it for a book club, so in order to finish it, I stopped reading his remarks, but he is very believable and understandable.
If you do some searches you will find some medical documentation that the tunnel is nothing more than your optic nerves shutting down, from outside to inside—creating an illusion of a tunnel. The great feeling is nothing more than endorphins.
The documentation describes a pretty consistent experience across the board. That is what is interesting.
And, if it is really as great there as folks say, why would you want to come back and talk to us?
And if Jesus was God, then wouldn’t it be the same as the “light?”
You can really drive yourself nuts trying to reconcile our “religion”—created by men, with a physical and spiritual experience created by our creator.
That is where faith comes in. I think it will be OK. But, it is the one question we all have to answer on our own.
Where did you hear that?
We were create in the image of God.
That means we are the children of God just like he said.
We are the same species.
There are other scriptural references to pre-mortal life.
Awsome story. YHWH is good to us.
Where in any biblical work does it say we are angels? Or that angels are what we become.
We are created in God’s image. No argument there. If we are different from angels, then they are evidently not made on God’s image.
Your original question was about the battles in heaven beteen the Angels and Satan’s folks. I am not really debating the existence of our souls before our earthly existence.
Gary Habermas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skGf_vsthl8&feature=related
We are the same species.
I will rise in agreement with Vermont Lt. The Fallen Ones (fallen angels) came here and laid with the daughters of men, and that union produced giants (Nephilim, Titans). If we were the same species, such an offspring would be unlikely.
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