I wasn’t telling anyone ot go to hell- My joke was that hwen people tell me to go to hell, I can now tell them I’ve been there already- thanks to a frightful NDE or NDE-like experience
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I was a Christian when the experience happened- so yes, I’ve been a Christian right along- it’s just that that terrible experience really played with my mind and made me doubt for many years—
I had been fairly active in sharing my faith before the event, and after I kinda got quiet about my faith, and didn’t share unless someone really asked- so I guess you could say Satan accomplished what He set out to accomplish sadly- But eventually I regained my assurance thanks to studying God’s word on the issue of eternal salvation
Satan’s main goals are to cause Christians to fall, or to shut us up if He can so that we don’t give out God’s word- and He certainly knew how best to get at me-
His other main goal is to keep unsaved people blind to their need for God- and I believe He uses NDE’s and ‘visions’ of bright lights, and even of what appears to be Jesus and loved ones etc- to keep people from seeking the truth, and to keep them thinking they are ok with God when of course they aren’t because they never accepted Christ as Savior-
Quite an experience you had. I'm glad you made peace with God. Like you said, the devil's goal is to peal anyone he can from God, relentlessly.