The love child of Bill Clinton and Greg Norman!!!!
Just ‘wow’!
This story reminds me of one of the reasons I started believing in God again.
After being atheist for many years, I began to hear the stories of all these “near death experiences” (NDE’s). I began to study the topic intensely, and I found they were remarkably similar. Thousands of stories, and they all related seeing “one God” in a “paradise” after a “tunnel”. Some even included visions of Hell like this man’s.
Now of course there were two choices:
1. That this is real, and I’d better get my act together.
2. This is all fake, just the affect on the brain after oxygen deprivation.
I clung to #2 for a while until I realized that even that option gave me no hope. I realized that:
-If #2 really was what the “reality” of the situation was, then did I want my last moments of existence (experienced via oxygen deprivation), to be visions of Hell? In other words, if #2 is true, then the visions of Hell some NDE’ers experienced were also the result of oxygen deprivation. IOW, I’m NOT GUARANTEED a pleasant “hallucination”.
So, I then realized, even if #2 is the case, then I have nothing to loose to “get right with God”, because then, at least, however it is “done” in the deep recesses and subconscious of the brain, I will have a “nice hallucination” when I die. I can know this because everyone who had the “hallucination” of Hell were, by their own admission, NOT “right with God”. Therefore, there must be some region in the brain that can only be affected by faith in God, affected so that I’m assured a “nice death hallucination”.
Now, of course, my faith is not rested upon such cold analysis today, however, the logic cannot be denied. This is why I’m still amazed so many atheists/agnostics will shrug these NDE’s off saying “they’re just the result of oxygen deprivation”. It’s like they don’t think of the consequences beyond that.
Or maybe they never heard of the hellish NDE’s.
My arms and legs dropped lifeless to my side and then I passed out. Yet sitting the the driver’s seat I could see and sense myself in the car from the rear driver side by the gas cap. Doesn’t really bother me when some disbelieve, because I know what happened. The view simply was not from inside the car. The only other thing I remember is the paramedics radioing in once they had extracted me from the vehicle, that I appeared to be a "quad".
I had emergency neurosurgery C5-T1 and was kept in a drug induced coma for almost 48 hours. The next day, I got up and walked, and now have no neurological deficit. I don't so much feel lucky that I was able to live and remain miraculously unparalyzed, as I feel privileged and humbled that I am allowed to continue God's work.
My arms and legs dropped lifeless to my side and then I passed out. Yet sitting the the driver’s seat I could see and sense myself in the car from the rear driver side by the gas cap. Doesn’t really bother me when some disbelieve, because I know what happened. The view simply was not from inside the car. The only other thing I remember is the paramedics radioing in once they had extracted me from the vehicle, that I appeared to be a "quad".
I had emergency neurosurgery C5-T1 and was kept in a drug induced coma for almost 48 hours. The next day, I got up and walked, and now have no neurological deficit. I don't so much feel lucky that I was able to live and remain miraculously unparalyzed, as I feel privileged and humbled that I am allowed to continue God's work.
Bump for after work.
Oh my...........goosebumps!!
Once I read the title of this post I knew it had to do with some critter from Australia. What is it about that place?? Most poisonous snakes, spiders, jellyfish, [fill in the blank] ... Sounds like the animal life down there have a real chip on their shoulders...
I had not known that NDEs are different for atheists. I would like to know now how Buddhists and Moslems experience them. Surely they are not reserved for Christians and atheists.
The love child of Bill Clinton and Greg Norman!!!!
Doesn’t surprise me at all.