And they're certainly going to be stymied by some of the unusual personal accounts of people that were dead for a short time.
Well, not completely dead, just mostly dead.
Posted on 04/04/2023 5:53:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
I had sudden death syndrome so I was not drugged until they put me in a coma.
“Proof of Heaven”
I do believe I’ve read that one. Something about a young girl dying and came back to. She met her brother who died before she was born-parents never told her. Then she talked about a goofy hat and shirt the father wore at the honeymoon before she was born. They didn’t tell her that either.
Years ago, I heard of an African tribe that had a tradition of launching the heads of freshly decapitated bodies into the air. They would bend a sapling over and tie it down with a basket attached at the top. Right after the victim was axed, the head was put in the basket and the vine cut so the head was hurled high into the air. Perhaps a kind of euphoric final journey for the departed.
Makes you go, ‘Hmmmm...’
You can do that with a cat..................
Just giving the dearly departed a head start on their journey......................
Forward thinking, really!
Oh they heard me alright lol. I was still kind of out of it when I came to. They got a hellfire and damnation sermon that evening.
“I think it was the Gospel of Barnabas that stated Jesus went to Hell when he died, before his ascent to Heaven.”
Ok, I thought Christians all knew this. People who died believing in God’s promises before Christ did not go to Heaven. This was because Jesus had not yet come and so they were not yet born again. They went to a place, adjacent to Hell called Paradise to await the Messiah. When Christ died on the Cross, made SIN for us, He indeed went to Hell, and conquering death, left there after being received by all those awaiting Him in Paradise. When He left, He took all of them with Him to Heaven. This is all in the Bible, not in some gnostic non biblical writings. Look it up.
Some mornings I wake up or even during an afternoon nap, when I awaken sometimes it’s out of total nothingness, I have to wonder if that’s what it’s like when death overcones you. Total blank.
No dreams hardly shifted in bed, it’s kind of weird but I have gotten used to it, and don’t find it perplexing.
I had a cousin who went to bed at 51 and passed on. His covers were undisturbed. He was fortunate in that regard.
I haven’t had a near-death experience but I have been plucked from extenuating circumstances and have absolutely no recollection how I was immediately removed from dangerous circumstances. That has happened 4 times in my life. I wasn’t unscathed, but literally removed away from certain death. I figure it wasn’t my time. Perhaps angels, but I cannot comprehend why that would be, except grace, or continued presence to care for loved ones.
Age has a way of softening the fear of death. I continuously prepare for a death devoid of material struggles for my family as in having my affairs in order, decluttering etc... my father died suddenly but mother was taken care of and lived for another 25 years. Father was very honorable in his obligation to see things rightfully prioritized.
It’s all one can do.
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"
That reminds me of the old joke, "I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like his passengers".
wait, so DID the executioner show the head to the people?
would have *loved* to read that his head was shown and he remained conscious enough to say, “Be sure to drink your……” and then nothing….leaving generations to battle over what he meant. :)
We all started dying the minute we are born. Mortality is a bummer.
This is why we call it Faith.
A man who is born once dies twice, a man born twice dies once.
OK, not a frog but a dog - true story.
One evening the ranch dog walked into the open walk-in freezer by the ranch kitchen, and got shut in.
The next morning he was found there, frozen stiff.
He was laid in the sun. Later, he got up. He seemed to act the same as before his incident. He was thereafter called “Deeper”.
These atheists groping around, trying to cope with the idea of death. So cute.
Glad you made it.
We’re all in God’s Waiting Room, but He just hasn’t called us into His Office for the final app’t, yet.
Good joke!
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