Death is final. There is no second chance. Someone who “comes back” is not dead, but has done a U-turn on the road to death.
There is no glimpse at any “judgement” and then another chance.
This phenomenon is caused by the body’s release of chemicals that are meant to render the road to death free of pain and anxiety. (Death is a natural process). When a person “sees” Jesus, the person is imagining based on his/her expectations of what will happen at death.
Sorry, but we are not going to sneak any glimpse at what comes afterwards. We were told what comes afterwards. There is no “tourist visit” to the afterlife from which one returns complete with stories and photos to give to an anxious audience.
I was given the gift of meeting a man who went through this.
He didn’t go to church, or think much about any kind of God.
On the way to the hospital, after his first heart attack, he died.
He said he realized that he was dead, and wondered what would happen next.
He immediately thought about his father, and was whisked away, only to find 2 older cousins.
After greetings, he was told he had to go back.
He didn’t want to come back, but was pulled into his body.
A few months later, he had a second heart attack.
This time, he was met by Jesus, who spent time showing him what he had done right, and wrong, in his life.
Jesus told him he still had work to do in his life.
Jesus then sent him back to his body.
He told me that if someone had said this to him 20 years before, he would think they were nuts, but, because he knew what he knew, and saw what he saw, he knew that the Lord walks with him, and so he has no worries.
I’m not trying to change anybody’s minds, I’m just reporting about this man.
He seemed a bit angelic to me.
I’m glad I met him.
Or not.