Near-death experience Many stories of those who tell of the phenomenon often don’t reflect what we know through Scripture
Near death experiences are exactly that: “Near” death.
One last thought: you can read a thing a million times over, and then one time, something really pops out at you. Sometimes it strikes you funny... This tickled me one day:
"Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days."
--John, 11:39
"Stinketh" has since become a part of the "facetious" section of my vocabulary... The great Charles Schultz used Scripture often in "Peanuts." I remember one where Linus got so upset with Lucy, that he tore his shirt. The last frame read, "She hath caused me to rend my garment."
God has to have a sense of humor... It's a gift to us!
bttt
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.
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.