| Near Death Experiences (NDE) |
Created Date: 11-May-2016 |
| They Are Real and Prove Life After Death |
Last updated: 17-Jul-2024 |
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From wiki "A near-death experience is a personal experience associated with death or impending death. Such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. NDEs are a recognized part of some transcendental and religious beliefs in an afterlife."
The secular world has come out with explanations of NDE as dealing with the brain's ability to keep working when the heart stops. The time-of-death pronouncement by Doctors is taken at the moment the heart stops beating. Some medical documentation websites state that the brain does a shut-down like a computer within two to twenty seconds after the heart stops beating., therefore medically theory would state there cannot be any ability for the human body to have any senses retrieving data of actual experiences occurring around the dead body.
The ability for the human brain to continue to process through electrical charges after death can be possibly measured where the synapses are continuing to work until there is no energy available. The questions to consider, beyond a medical explanation, when reading further in this topic for those people who have experienced an NDE are:
Many NDE people have given some or all of the following items of what transpired when they were dead, which science and biology state is impossible:
| Matthew 27:51-53 | 51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. |
Unfortunately, there is also the ability to find books, Internet Sites and Documentary Videos from people who are deliberately using deception with false documentation of events that never happened for the purpose of making money.
One of this author's friend's wife is an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurse. It is apparently common, when a patient is near death, for the nurses to walk into a patient's area and hear the patient talking to someone or others, when there is no one visibly there in the area. The nurses sometimes will hear from the patient, "I want you to meet my dear brother, sister, father, mother, or good friend".
The nurses then will tell the other nurses that the patient is about to leave as he or she is receiving relatives that are not visibly there. Note that when this happens, it seems to happen mostly with older patients and there is no perceived stress or narcotic prescription according to my friend's wife.
At the time of writing of this topic, the best two known NDE experiences that this author is aware of are:
Both of these authors do not bring any type of sensationalism, glory or pretentiousness to themselves in their books. In fact, at most specific areas in the books, everything is described in a very matter of fact type of tone that conveys the feeling of a friend speaking to a friend.
As of 2023, there are many websites with people giving their NDE stories. Here are just a few that this author found intersting:
There is often the scripture quoted by some Theologians that it is impossible for a person to die more than one time based on a misunderstanding of Hebrews 9:27:
| Hebrews 9:27 | 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own; 26 else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment; 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation. |
When verse 27 is kept in context of verses 23 through 28, the scriptures are speaking about Jesus Christ died once, for all of mankind and His Death for each person's life that was lived. The High Priest would enter the Holy of Hollies in the Temple once a year on Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, for a special cleansing that had to be done every year where Christ's Death, was once and once only.
Additionally, the "unto men once to die" could not mean that a person only dies once as evidenced by many scriptures such as Lazarus in John 11:38-44. The "judgment" is for all of mankind after the life lived. This is also an argument against reincarnation as no one gets to live additional separate lives.
| John 11:38-44 | 38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39 Take away the stone, he said. But, Lord, said Martha, the sister of the dead man, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days. 40 Then Jesus said, Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? 41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me. 43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, Take off the grave clothes and let him go. |
It has to be written that the best authority for us all to have Faith in an after-life is the Bible. NDEs are just an ancillary proof where we all need to always look at God's Scriptures as the answer, salvation and proof of life after death.
This following information and website is not being endorsed by the author of Biblical Thoughts for God's Glory, but is listed as proof that NDEs are legitimate recognized. Many of us hear that Medical Doctors and scientist state that there is no evidence for God and NDEs and that is not true. This author would also state the following serious and funny statement:
"It is funny how there are people stating that 100% of Physician and Scientists don't believe in NDEs when those people have eliminated all the Physicians and Scientist who state their is very convincing evidence, that is proof of NDEs."
Two links of many that can be found easily on the Internet:
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