Of those that are positive (i.e., not the hellish ones), many confirm the experiencers' faith or lack thereof. There are some that confirm a faith in the Gospel and there are others that have unmistakable New Age themes (and confirm that kind of belief). That strikes me as odd.
If one accepts the idea that they are real in that the experiencers are indeed brain dead and out-of-the-body--and there are many, many observations of the experiencers that establish this, like seeing things done by surgeons or people standing in the hall outside an operating room--then the question emerges, is it possible for a person's spirit to have a kind of hallucination right after leaving the body?
The ones I find particularly confusing are those wherein the experiencers come back into their bodies with declarations like, "Everything you do during your life is good and fine. There is no guilt or reason to worry."
This I find very strange because, like most of us, I have seen (and still see) some people do some really evil things. And this "no worries" kind of NDE stands in stark contrast to the "hellish" ones (which frankly sound quite believable, if only because of the shock of those experiencing them).
I slept on this, and also those who objected to me saying God was (reportedly) without judgment.
Remember, you still have a life review, and during your life review you experience everything significant you did -- even as a child! -- from the perspective of your victim or beneficiary.
So, take Hitler: He'd have to experience the anguish and desolation of each and every Jew in the gas chamber... and that's just one of his actions!
Maybe it's not God that judges you. Maybe YOU judge you, during your life review. I wouldn't expect Hitler's, or Mussolini's, or Pol Pot's life review to be fun.
Not any fun at all.
[[The ones I find particularly confusing are those wherein the experiencers come back into their bodies with declarations like, “Everything you do during your life is good and fine. There is no guilt or reason to worry.”]]
Gangs like hells angels, ms-13, and myriad other violent criminals gangs all over the world, and despotic tyrants etc who do not repent will face God’s wrath and eternal punishment. The Bible makes that clear-
Those folks coming “back” from their experiences are teaching a false teaching- and I believe are deceived by the evil one
When you look at NDEs, many contradict each other and contradict the Bible. I read once about a lady who worked with sick children, and many had NDEs. She reported that Catholic children often mentioned seeing the Virgin Mary during their NDEs, while Protestant children almost never mentioned seeing her. That leads me to believe that people see what they expect to see during NDEs.
Still, I’d like to believe there’s something to it. I had a brief out-of-body experience as a child which leads me to believe that we do have a soul that can exist outside our bodies, and that soul is “the real us,” while our bodies are merely shells.