Posted on 09/19/2015 8:19:29 AM PDT by Salvation
Thanks for the ping and the link.
That was just an out of body experience, not a near death experience.
Two words: HOWARD STORM
That will convince you of NDE’s if you don’t believe.
Atheist became Minister after his NDE and his entire family got saved.
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“Just?”
Maybe something that is usual in your world. . .
;-)
That said, there has been a time or two I’ve had an out of body experience when confronted/confounded by my son’s shenanigan’s when he was growing up.
You should email Msgr. Charles Pope, a diocesan priest of the archdiocese of Washington, DC, and tell him that he's "the head of the catholic [sic] religion". He would no doubt be highly amused.
(Earlier this week, another Protestant poster said Msgr. Pope was an archbishop!)
Forgive me for asking but in a Parish, at Mass, is the one administering the Mass subordinate to the Pope at Mass?
I remember that Christ said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
I don’t doubt that the variety of NDEs probably reflect that very thing.
What I can’t really accept is that all NDEs are purely some kind of evolutionary ‘safety switch’ to calm down people during the process of death. That makes no sense at all to me.
Up until very recently almost no one had the opportunity to have NDE - you just died. They couldn’t bring you back if your heart had stopped. End of story.
Since all evolutionary ends are directed toward maximizing your reproductive function (or derived from that), there is no reason to smooth out death since by definition, you won’t be coming back and making babies. Nature would not waste a complex system on end stage hallucinations that almost always feature peace and a feeling of well-being. It would be pointless.
Since these things do happen, there must be some other reason for them. I believe some part of us moves on.
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.
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