This question is about near death experience stories?

Question

First I want to say I am a Christian and am very close to God, and everyone that lives a good life shall spend eternal happiness in Heaven. I want to know what other people believe about the question I am about to ask, this is not about judgement, this is other peoples' perspectives about my question. I by no means whatsoever intend to offend anyone. People tell stories about near death experiences, both to Heaven and Hell. Who believes these stories are true and who believes these stories are made up? I know that near death experiences cannot be proven or disproven. It is debatable. Therefore my question is based on perspective rather than fact. I would like to know everyone' view on this question. Thank you!

Answer 1

I think it's unusual. It's more or less proven that the brain firing off neurons and releasing certain chemicals causes the hallucinations but why it would cause that effect seems odd. There doesn't seem to be any evolutionary advantage or pressure to select for that type of experience happening and nature is ruthless, so why it would give everyone a (usually) nice hallucinogenic experience before death is a mystery. It's possible that it has some beneficial calming effect that allows the body to recover, but that's not been proven yet.



I would be very hesitant to believe it's anything significant or important due to the fact many stories contradict one another e.g some experiences are very religion-orientated, while other people have claimed they have been told religion is fairly unimportant and damaging for those who believe in it obsessively. Also for those people who have bad experiences or go to 'hell', they usually aren't terrible sinners or bad people, it seems completely random. Some suicides claimed they were helped, while others were made to suffer etc, etc.

Answer 2

NDE stands for Near Death Experience and thereby lies the clue! No death just fantasy!



Research has been done in a number of hospitals in a number of countries with the same results.



Numbers, pictures of codes were placed on top of high points in the wards. In some hospitals patients were told in others they were not.



In the hospitals where people were told of the test there were no claims! Not even one!



In the other hospitals there were claims but no one could describe the numbers, pictures etc.



Then even more interesting it was found that all the claimants had recorded their religion as Christian!



Psychiatrists and psychologists are now examining the links between these false fantasy claims and a single religion!

Answer 3

You say that you know that near death experiences cannot be proven or disproven, but you say this from ignorance of the subject matter as both Christians and non Christians have had them not to forget the atheist who have also been to hell and back. As one former atheist says it is easy to be an atheist when you are health but not when you die. The NDE is real!

Answer 4

Many people report a sensation of floating above their body, looking down at it. I have read of an attempt to verify this in a high risk hospital trauma treatment room where a random number generator was placed facing up, on top of a cupboard and not visible to people below, BUT visible to people "floating above." Would the floating person see the number and be able to accurately report it upon their return to life...? I never read any conclusions, but it seemed a rather random and vague test of the experience.



Other physicians and scientists have speculated that these experiences are merely the way our brain reacts when it is in the process of winding down. Imagine if a rather charismatic individual in the Middle East several thousand years ago had this experience, and reported on it after his or her recovery...could that have been the genesis of several religions, including the conventional ones we have in the modern world?

Answer 5

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NDEs blatantly contradict - in every facet - the biblical teaching about death. NDEs are another manifestation of the occult phenomenon known as astral travel - and one doesn't have to be dead, or even near death to experience it.



If, at death, Christians are immediately transported to heaven, Paul's words here make no sense: "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" (1 Thessalonians 4:15-16) If the "dead in Christ" were already in the presence of God in heaven, why would Paul tell the Thessalonians that those alive will not precede them there on the second coming? These verses work only if those "asleep" are in the grave.



Scripture is clear: "For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?" (Psalm 6:5), and at death, "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." (Psalm 146:4)



Obviously, NDEs do not fit the biblical teaching about death - and for more reasons than just those stated above. The Bible says also that Jesus Christ is our only hope for salvation: " Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12). yet few, if any, return from their NDE convinced of the need for Christ's atoning blood. Why didn't the being of light, whom many believe to be God, warn them about the impending judgment depicted in Scripture and then give them the good news of Christ as their Substitute in that judgment? Why didn't the "dead" tell them about Jesus and His salvation? Indeed, most of these "dead" were never Christians to begin with, and those who reported meeting the dead are rarely converted as a result of their near-death experience. Those who have NDEs don't usually see the need of Jesus Christ as their hope of eternal life because, after their experience, they believe they already have eternal life.



Both astral travel and NDEs presuppose an immortal soul – a consciousness that exists separate from the body. Yet the Bible teaches that, at creation, the Lord "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7). The word for "soul," nephesh, is the same word used in the creation account for animals: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. (Genesis 1:24). According to the Bible, a soul is what we are, not what we possess.



Whatever the physical elements, NDEs are no doubt being successfully manipulated, if not directly caused, by the devil in order to dupe millions into believing that they will automatically live forever.



Meanwhile, because of that misrepresentation of Scripture which says that the dead live on after death, millions of Christians have little protection against this deception. Only by a true understanding of the Bible, which teaches that death is an unconscious sleep un till the resurrection, and by a firm trust in Christ, who along offers eternal life (John 3:16), can anyone be safe from the overwhelming delusions of NDEs.



Otherwise you do not have a ghost of a chance.



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Answer 6

As minister I can not say whether these stories are true are not. But I have spent a lot of time with bed patients that have passed on. I can not say what they see but always they seem to have conversations with loved ones on the other side. It does not seem to be just people imagining things because it occurs every time I have been with someone when they pass.

Answer 7

NDE are like dreams such as the one you have in your bed when you are sleeping. They are really made up and to deceive you to thinking you are going to hell or heaven. Satan made this so that you will forget about god and cherish life as you would like for example partying. This turns you away from god thinking you are going to heaven or hell. So satan is behind this and not god as people claim. But god might put this into you to make you think about your life and changing it.

Answer 8

Dimethyltryptamine is the most powerful psychedelic known to man, and your own brain produces it. It's believed to be produced in your pineal gland, and in reptiles the pineal gland has a retina, a cornea and a lens, so it's literally a third eye for them. It's responsible for dreaming, near death experiences, and "UFO abductions." When you're in heavy REM sleep and right at times of human death, your brain pumps out heavy doses of dimethyltryptamine. You're literally taking a heavy psychedelic trip every night as you sleep.



You can have amazing experiences with psychedelics, but I don't believe you're communicating with something that's real, though.

Answer 9

Yes. I definitely think they are real. I answered another question of yours about NDE's, if you want to know my full opinion just look at my other answer.



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