Death is that from which you don’t come back. If someone “comes back from the dead” he was not dead. End of discussion.
That is why they are called near-death experiences and not death experiences.
By the way, are you an atheist? Do you not believe in the risen Christ and the reports of Jesus raising the dead?
“Death is that from which you don’t come back. If someone “comes back from the dead” he was not dead. End of discussion.”
Exactly.
What about “near death experiences” ? They are for real and have been studied for years.
Then who is resuscitated?
Not a trick question. Jesus did many good works. For which of them did the Pharisees deem it necessary to have Him killed?
We know what it’s like to take a step in time: occasionally, God allows a glimpse into eternity. Who are we to question? It happened in Scripture, both in the Old and New Testaments. Who are we, in our finite minds, to question the infinite? My family had many stories such as these: they were poor, uneducated, from the old country. They knew their dependence on God, and on their neighbors, and had none of the technology in their lives that we do to distract their minds. It was God, family and friends, and work. They looked at death as part of life, and occurrences such as these were not uncommon: nor were they taken for granted. I believe they had a profound wisdom that cannot be learned in a classroom; I only wish I were the same...