Heaven for me will be a whole bevy of hot cars, big firearms that don't run out of ammo, hot and wanton chicks, friends all over, video games, dogs, NIN on demand, and maybe a few flights in a F22.
Ping to read later
Near-death is not death. Death is what you don’t come back from.
Hallucinations are not a vision of Heaven.
These stories are interesting. However, they vary in content over time and geography. I agree with the poster who stated, in essence, there is a big difference between those who come back to tell a story and those who do not.
No blue-eyed, blonde-haired Jesus like that kid who dreamt it up and helped the sales of a book detailing his “experiences”?
“You have nothing to fear.”
“There is nothing you can do wrong.”
There is nothing I can do wrong? Really? And I still go to Heaven no matter what? Cool!
For those who know Christ as Savior, He promises that
we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)
Unfortunately for this man, whatever "being" disguised as a woman that was talking with him told him that there is nothing he can do wrong, and he has nothing to fear. I hope at some point before he actually dies, someone is placed in his path who will give him the cold, hard facts about his condition and his eternity.
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My near-death experience, however, took place not while my cortex was malfunctioning, but while it was simply off. This is clear from the severity and duration of my meningitis, and from the global cortical involvement documented by CT scans and neurological examinations. According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent.
Catholic ping! Continue reading at the above link.
What gives this away as something other than an other-worldly experience is the author’s description of seeing and hearing. Sight and hearing are facilitated by the organs of the body and the brain. If there is a means of perception in the world beyond, I can’t help but think that it will be on a completely different level.
Interesting that his experience contained the Buddhist
“Void, blissful and shining”.
Everyone is worried about where we go when we die,
few ask about where we were before we were born...
Heaven’s real, all right. No one in this family will ever forget the experience of being with my husband’s grandfather when he died a couple of years ago. He was one of the most dear, God-loving men I have ever known, and during his last days in the hospital, the Lord gave him glimpses of what was to come. He would take our hands and tell us he couldn’t even find the words to describe what he was seeing, and that he couldn’t wait to go. The atmosphere in that little room was like that of a worship service....even the doctors and nurses tiptoed in and out, and one nurse told my MIL she had never felt anything like it.
Looking back, I think God did it as much for us as for him, so we’d have the assurance that he would be okay.
Atheist Professor’s Near-Death Experience in Hell Left Him Changed
I’ve seen and read of many “near death experiences,” and have kept an open mind, neither accepting nor rejecting the reality of this. But, this one strikes an off note for some reason.
The Pixar cartoonishness for one, the very vague feel good nature of it in contradiction to the Christianity he professes for another, but above all, it’s the sheer self-centered me me me of it all. Loved ones? Nope. An identifiable God presence? Nope, just waves washing through ... him.
wow! what a description of heaven and I believe and know it is all true. I have not discussed much my visitor from heaven one night over my bed as it filled my body with warmth. It also told me in a wordless way similar to the doctor’s description, that I am well loved and safe now. It has changed my life in amazing ways.
I also note that none of these "near death" experiences involve someone being revived in a terror struck state describing torment and suffering?
Fascinating story. It confirms a lot of things Christians have always suspected it was like. In a way, I’m glad he was such a skeptic beforehand.
It explains, as much as our earthly minds can fathom, some of the things we are told in Scripture about the joy and peace of Heaven that surpasses all understanding.
Heaven will be far superior to life on earth. Good enough for me.