Near Death Experiences are one piece of evidence that help prove God and the Bible when considered in context of all the other evidence.
Non-Christians must repent and accept Jesus to enter His kingdom.
NDE Proof:
Dr Jeffrey Long offers 9 “lines of evidence [that] point to the conclusion that near-death experiences are medically inexplicable and cannot be explained by known physical brain function”.
1. Lucid, organized experiences while unconscious, comatose, or clinically dead. These shouldn’t happen according to conventional medical understanding.
2. Seeing ongoing events from a location apart from the physical body while unconscious (out-of-body experience). Studies by Dr. Michael Sabom and Dr. Penny Sartori found that patients resuscitated after an NDE are able to report facts about their resuscitation much more accurately that those who had no NDE.
3. Near-death experiences with vision in the blind and supernormal vision. These people had vivid visual experiences unexpected in those blind since birth.
4. Near-death experiences that occur while under general anaesthesia. It shouldn’t be possible to have a lucid organised memory under a general anaesthetic.
5. Near-death experiences and life reviews. “The consistent accuracy of life reviews, including the awareness of long-forgotten events and awareness of the thoughts and feelings of others from past interactions, further suggests the reality of NDEs.”
6. Encountering deceased loved ones in near-death experiences. In hallucinations and dreams, people are most likely to see living relatives, but in NDEs they are most likely to see dead relatives.
7. Near-death experiences of young children. Young children are less likely to have developed religious or cultural understandings about death and an afterlife, yet their experiences are similar to older people.
8. Cross-cultural study of near-death experiences. Again, the content is similar world wide, regardless of differences in culture and religion.
9. Near-death experience after effects. NDEs commonly lead to significant and positive life changes.
Dr Long says it is a “basic scientific principle that what is real is consistently observed”, and therefore argues for the authenticity of NDE experiences.
We evolved the ability to imagine an afterlife and supernatural realms with beings that fight some cosmic war of good and evil because it seems we have a better chance of surviving if we believe in such things. Individuals that make great sacrifices for god may actually be helping the tribe — without belief in the supernatural these sacrifices look very irrational and unattractive. These supernatural “memes” and the cognitive processes that support them are adaptations for survival.
It would be awesome if we were magical beings that were more than flesh and blood. But its an illusion that gives us a sense of meaning in our lives so that we can carry on, and have kids and have hope for the future.
Its a bit of a black pill. Its best not to think on it too much.
PostWallHelena 0 points 3.3 years ago
We evolved the ability to imagine an afterlife and supernatural realms with beings that fight some cosmic war of good and evil because it seems we have a better chance of surviving if we believe in such things. Individuals that make great sacrifices for god may actually be helping the tribe — without belief in the supernatural these sacrifices look very irrational and unattractive. These supernatural “memes” and the cognitive processes that support them are adaptations for survival.
It would be awesome if we were magical beings that were more than flesh and blood. But its an illusion that gives us a sense of meaning in our lives so that we can carry on, and have kids and have hope for the future.
Its a bit of a black pill. Its best not to think on it too much.