christians: can you please explain this?? dont worry im not bashing you................?

Question

about three years ago my friends little brother had a bad accident and was hit by a car. he was 15 and did not beleive in god, in fact he was a pretty die hard athiest. but when he was hit he was drifting in and out of concioussness, and eventualy when he was in the ambulance he was proven clinically dead for 8 minutes and 34 seconds, and during this time he watched his body from above and was pulled in a direcition. and he was greeted by his grandmother (who he has never met) and confirmed that, that is who he saw in the photo album. he for a short time experienced the whole truth, and was at once at peace. he had no boddy no nothing. he described himself and who he saw and nothing more then an all knowing energy/light of love and peace. and before he knew it he was brought back to life. he does not remember the whole truth, because its not meant for the human mind to know while on earth. but he felt it.


hes okay now but how do you explain this. i thought he should have burned???

Answer 1

Not a Christian...

I suspect the little guy was oxygen deprived and experiencing the classic effects of hypoxia. It's marked by a total sense of euphoria and well being.

Eight minutes is a very long long time to be clinically dead - are you sure about the time involved... and that he hasn't suffered some lasting brain damage?

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Answer 2

Are you kidding? Burned? No way - God the Father is not looking around for people to zap, not even athiests. Do you think with what is being taught in many of the worlds churches today, that God thinks your brother and others have really had the chance to really hear the truth? I don't mean bible verses, i mean real truth? When Christ returns, there will be a 1000 year period of teaching, so that everyone will know the real truth, and then and only then if your brother rejects God, then yes, he would be blotted out - No forever burning in agony, just simply blotted out of existance - turned to ashed from within, so that the smoke will go up forever - just gone.Thats Scriptural. I used to go to a near death experience group meeting each month for a few years, and some of those people saw a tunnel and a bright light, but came back before they could see anything else, and others were talked to briefly by dead relatives, and some of them said that they remember they were told something about why they are needed back here, and that it was incredibly amazing information, but for some reason they couldn't recall it - but they are at peace, because whatever it was that they can't remember, it okay because they do remember that it was a good reason that they came back. You can put that in the "for whatever its worth department", ok?

Your brother has an opportunity that not alot of folks get; It sounds as if you are supportive of that, supportive of him whatever he decides to do with the information he got;
thats very cool.

I'm glad he's doing better.

Happy New Year

jan

p.s. Theres a book on near death experiences by a guy named
"Moody" - its called Life after Life, I think. Anyway, the meetings i went to were the ones that included all of the people interviewed and studied for that book.

Answer 3

Near death or temporary death experiences sound a lot like Sleep Paralysis, when a person is dreaming and wakes up, but can not physically move. This is what happens when people say that aliens visited them, usually they are in bed and paralyzed and aliens poke and prod them. This is because when the person with SP wakes up, the chemicals that keep the body from acting out its actions while dreaming -so that you don't harm yourself- are still working, and the conscious person is frozen, but still dreaming, or hallucinating now that he is awake. Many people with sp have reported out of body experiences as well. I think that the dying brain behaves much like a person experiencing an episode of sleep paralysis, but instead of the effect wearing off and ther person waking up, the person falls into a dreamless state and dies. In the case of your brother, he was revived before total death. Just be happy that he might turn out to be a better person now.

Answer 4

A couple of verses come to mind.

Matthew 7:1-3
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

I see this as, don't assume who's going to Hell or Heaven. Just love everyone and spread the good news. Let God be the only judge.

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

Again. I don't know why God would just forgive someone whether or not they believe. I don't know that what he saw was actually Heaven. I can only say that it was not his time. God will decide when he will go to live out his spiritual Eternity and where.

Answer 5

Just because you died doesn’t mean you are dead. Lazarus was raised from the dead after four days, but he wasn’t dead or Jesus could not have told him to get up. We were shown that the life force of all is God, not matter as we would naturally believe. Lazarus’ hereafter was here, and he completed his probation of living in truth prior to his change to the demonstration of life in Spirit. The boy in your case is similar to that of Lazarus. I would think that now this boy will be able to progress faster spiritually than most people his age.

Answer 6

You realize that the people who often know the bible better are atheists right? I can however point out that decadence and poor leadership are really slow ways to destroy a nation. Kind of like saying John Lennon was punished for saying The Beatles were more popular than Jesus even though he died almost twenty years after the quote. Why would your god take so long?

Answer 7

Clinical death is not death. The brain is still functioning. Also known as somatic death, it is simply the stopping of the heart. It is probably not a very good choice in terminology since it leads to a lot of superstitious assumptions. Near death experiences have been recreated and the area of the brain involved has been identified.

Better phrased ..." Irrespective of religious beliefs, NDE's are not evidence for life after death on simple logical grounds: death is defined as the final, irreversible end. Anyone who 'returned' did not, by definition, die - although their mind, brain and body may have been in a very unusual state"

The hard science..."Near-death experiences (NDE's) can be reproduced by ketamine via blockade of receptors in the brain (the N-methyl-D-aspartate, NMDA receptors) for the neurotransmitter glutamate. Conditions which precipitate NDE's (hypoxia, ischaemia, hypoglycaemia, temporal lobe epilepsy etc.) have been shown to release a flood of glutamate, over activating NMDA receptors resulting in neuro ('excito') toxicity. Ketamine prevents this neurotoxicity. There are substances in the brain which bind to the same receptor site as ketamine. Conditions which trigger a glutamate flood may also trigger a flood of neuroprotective agents which bind to NMDA receptors to protect cells, leading to an altered state of consciousness like that produced by ketamine."

Sorry, but when I hear these anecdotes it just needs a good dousing with reality.

Answer 8

It sounds like he had an out of body experience. God has a plan for everyone. He was only 15. Maybe he is still around because God's plan hadn't be fullfilled. If you are a Christian, minister to him. Heaven and Hell are very much real. I, for one, do not want to be in Hell for eternity.
Just last night I was watching CBN. There was a program on about out of body experiences. The doctor's had to preform a very unusual and unorthodox surgery on a woman's brain, so they drainecd the head of all the blood, lowered her body temperature to 60F, and hooked moniters to her to make sure she didn't seaze. For all accounts and purposes, the woman was dead for a little over an hour. She recalled after the surgery instruments used on her, conversations the doctors had while she was in surgery, etc.
You see, there must be more than just life on Earth.

Answer 9

You thought he should have burned? Good thing you're not the judge, huh? The point here is that we don't have all the answers, we're not suppose to. Also, according to the bible, when we die, we sleep until judgment. Your friend had this vision because it wasn't his time yet. And of course now, he knows God exists, so the outcome will be much different than if he had actually died denying God. He was given the proverbial 2nd chance.

Answer 10

No I cannot explain it but my belief is that we are held responsible for what we know. I cannot judge anyone from God's point of view because he knows where we came from, what our capabilities are, etc. I also do not know about a literal hell or where we go after this realm. People pick and choose what they interpret as literal and what is symbolism in the Bible. I don't feel I have that choice. I simply don't know all the answers.