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Except, of course, for NeverTrumpers. Those people are scum and it is okay to hate them. 😊
Thought this might be worthy of its own thread.
Look up Gary Habbermas on YT.
To love God with all your heart, and to love your fellow man.
Wow! I thought you had come around, found Jesus, or had a eureka moment, but then I read about your hatred for never Trumpers. Obviously you haven’t crossed over yet.
Stopped reading right there!
Regards,
Laz. Great to see you. If a person needs to almost die to know GOD exist, they aren’t looking around. We are exposed every day to things that are proof. Sunsets, loved ones, etc. I’ve almost died in several instances but never to a point that I felt it was an awaking. It just scared the hell out of me. Near dead or a dream? Does it matter? Be safe.
God isn’t giving tours of Heaven. You are to die once.
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How would someone who had an NDE know that God is non-judgmental or not? They seem like brief experiences, and not everything is explained.
For his last heart attack nine years later he had a DNR instruction because he was ready to go there. My Mother was able to tell him that my brother's daughter had just been born and my wife and I had just visited the day before with our nine month old daughter.
I’ve been feeling disconnected from God recently due to my own failings. I don’t think it was a coincidence that your post was the first one I saw this morning. Thanks.
This is very interesting to me. I would really like to believe there is something after death, whether it’s to be sent back to learn and experience, or some sort of heaven, or hell for those that deserve it, and I would love to be re-united with relatives. I have a story which I believe is true, not an NDE, but along similar lines. My aunt, my mother’s sister was a French model after WW2. She was in a plane crash on the way to an event in Africa, Algiers if I remember correctly. She was one of the survivors, but suffered some head injury. There was a convent nearby that had medical facilities and she was taken there. During the first 2 weeks, she was speaking fluent English. Except she did not know English. One morning she woke up and was again speaking her native tongue, French. The nuns were in shock and asked her why she was now speaking French when she was previously speaking English. My aunt had no idea what they were telling her. Strange or what?
Nice post. Thanks
There is something I have experienced though.
I was in Mom's room at the hospice, holding her hand as she lay dying. It sounds so crazy, but I saw the moment her spirit left her body. She was there and then faster than the eye can blink she was gone.
A few years later it happened again. My dad had been in the hospital for two weeks following a stroke. He wasn't responsive. He wasn't going to get any better. And he had long made his wishes known. It fell to me to sign the do not resuscitate order. The doctors pulled the life support.
Twelve hours later I was holding his hand and saw and felt his soul depart from him.
I've never liked looking at dead bodies. I've been that way since very early childhood. What happened with Mom and Dad showed me why that is. Because a dead body looks so *wrong*. There is no spark of the person who was and still is, there anymore. The soul has left and there is just slowly crumbling inanimate matter remaining behind. Not like people who are alive, who "shine" or "glow" or something. Living people and animals have a radiance that vanishes like a light turned off the moment they're gone.
I'm not saying that I "see" the soul, but it is something that I've done all my life, that Mom's passing and then Dad's showed me.
This is the very first time I've ever shared about that. Maybe someone else will raise their hand and tell me that they can see souls, too.
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 guess I’ll need noise canceling headphones in the afterlife. Can you recommend a brand?
Excellent podcast:
https://podbay.fm/p/where-is-my-mind
Episode 5 is Near Death Experiences
Episode 6 is The Life Review
In my mother’s womb, God knew me, as He created me
He knows the plans He has for me
He knows my beginning ….and the date I pass into Glory
It is already written
When we die, if we know the Lord as Savior, our souls immediately go to Heaven
And on that great Judgment Day when He returns every knee shall bow, every tongue confess, that Jesus is Lord
And those who know him, who have been redeemed, even if now dead, will rise up…..renewed and complete…..and meet Him in the air
This is not from me…..this is found in His Word
That map covers the dissolution of sensory perception, the order of that dissolution ( hearing is the last to go), and the process one goes through in transitioning through death into rebirth. Rebirth can occur into a heaven, or into another life with a corporeal body according to the text. How one arrives at the next life depends on the habitual aspects of ones heart at the time of death.If one habitually acts as a glutton, one can be reborn as such, for example.
The cycles of negative karma can either be gone through by acting habitually out, or transcended according to ones path of relating to the world while one is here on earth.
I highly recommend everyone to read this edition of the Tibetan "Book of the Dead" as it is called in the West.The true title the text is " “Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State (bardo)”
Reading his text, no matter what ones religion is, is very helpful , it does not create any problems. it just describes the process of death ( dissolution) and how one can achieve a favorable rebirth or how it is possible to escape the cycle of birth, old age ,sickness and death.
I highly recommend this version with a forward by my root teacher,Chogyam Trungpa, the Tibetan text of the Bardo Thodol translated by Francesca Freemantle:
