Whats your thoughts on near death experiences?

Question

There was a show on the science channel last night about near death experiences that got my interest in this.

There was woman that had her brain frozen so they could operate on it and after the operation she told them about heaven, she had been there the entire time they were operating on her.

They said science can't explain her case as any kind of electrical impulses in the brain because they were monitoring her brain during the operation and there wasn't any.

They told of children around 5 years old that experienced it also and they had some amazing stories about God and dead grandparents.

I can see an adult having the intelligence to make up a story possibly but not a 5 year old child.

I noticed all the adults float up and into a light but children see angels at their death bed, it's like they come to make the trip easier for a child.

Adults and children alike didn't want to come back.

What are your thoughts about this?

I feel asleep just before they started talking about hell newcovenant0, I would have liked hearing that also but maybe later.

Answer 1

I was electrocuted at work a while back. I was passed out when they pulled me down from the wires. But I never lost my train of thought, I feel that I experienced the whole thing in real time.

When the current grabbed me I felt the life quickly drain from my body, it occoured to me that this is how I am to die, and then I was moving at high speed down a river of florescent light, inside a canyon with tall dark walls. My body kept feeling like when you go over the falls on a roller coaster. After a time the walls of the canyons started to have faces, and the faces turned into my fellow workers staring down at me in horror, thinking I was dead. But I was pretty much OK except for some deep burns.

Could have been just the dieing process. But I feel that it was my choice to live or die during that time.

I would say my time since then is pure bonus time. But really our entire lives are bonus time. I don't understand anything more about death, but I did learn to appreciate each moment of life, each life giving breath.

Answer 2

i'm a Christian, and that i do have faith interior the soul and an afterlife. regardless of if, i've got faith that NDEs do no longer inevitably have something to do with the afterlife. even with each and every thing, they seem to be a *close to* dying experience. we've not have been given any thought what happens with a real dying. NDEs could be demonic hoaxes, or they may be the effect of specific neurochemicals firing in our brains. in case you study the NDE literature heavily, you will see that it would not help Biblical theology. human beings of any faith or no faith in any respect see glimpses of "heaven" or "beings of sunshine". In different words, in a common NDE, you do no longer must be born back to get to heaven. for this reason, as a Christian, I ought to end that the two the NDEs are fake, or Christian theology is fake. the two do no longer help one yet another.

Answer 3

It is most likely a part of the dying process.

Although many NDE have some aspect of heaven, far more are about drastically different experiences not related to religion.

All we can say is science has not discovered the mechanics of it yet. Give it some time and it will no longer be a mystery.

Answer 4

I don't know what to think, to be very honest. I am a Christian. Interestingly enough...my Dad accepted Jesus just four days before he died at age 91. I was over visiting him the night he passed away. He wasn't really lucid that night, he was sort of hallucinating. But then he spoke very clearly, two sentences. One was "well, what do you want me to do?" and the next was "I'm not afraid!". I think he was talking to God's angels.

On a personal note...thank you Lord for showing mercy to my Dad.

Answer 5

Bogus story! Brain death is irreversible. The woman wasn't totally dead, so she still might have experienced hallucinations.

Answer 6

I saw that one too. I have to agree with the doc who said that NDE was the process of dying, and not death itself. I have my mixed feelings about it, because a lot of it doesn't line up with the bible (yes, I know, you don't have to tell me how narrow minded this is, but hey, it is my faith!)

I think that the devil can trick us into thinking that death is not a scary thing, that we will all be accepted no matter what.

Oh, btw, you didn't mention those that had the "hellish" experience. I thought that was kinda weird, IMO.

Answer 7

did you ever notice nobody ever comes back talking about sinking down into a lake of fire and pain?

Answer 8

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