Do believe that people actually die, go to Heaven and come back?

Question

I think there was a Barabara Walter's special where all these people and some celebreties talk of ending up in the hospital or whatever and they die (the hospital's have it on record that they did die for a few seconds or minutes) and they go to Heaven and see family who had died earlier or they see a bright light. and they they come back. some kind of doctor says it's just images in their brain. but how could that be if hospitals have it recorded that they did die at one point?
i beleive them. do you?

on the headline I meant "do YOU beleive..."

Answer 1

I not only believe it, it happened to me. I won't say it's impossible that I "imagined" it, but it was the most uncanny experience of my whole long, strange trip. I did not see any dead relatives or anything, and I can't honestly say I "saw" an entity, but I had a conversation with an entity I understood to be a sort of cosmic mentor, and could probably be interpreted as an angel. He/she and I reviewed my life so far and concluded that one of my options was to return to the body I'd been inhabiting instead of moving on. I elected to do that as it seemed my mentor was implying that was the most noble and honorable course for me to take, rather than "copping out" in suicide.

I've never been afraid of death after that, but neither do I invite it.

Answer 2

Jesus and Lazarus are said to have resurrected in The Bible. Some religious believers say that their God heals the wounded and perhaps brings back the dead although I have never heard of specific cases. As for an afterlife, no one can know unless they are a ghost or an angel so I guess you'll have to wait and see : )

Answer 3

The brain does amazing things during what I euphemistically refer to as a "hard boot". It's interesting that everyone who experiences "Heaven" has knowledge of Heaven - you don't see Shintoists being recuscitated and talking about Heaven - the NDE seems to be rather culture-specific, which indicates to me that it's all, quite literally, in their heads. Not to mention that people can gain a lot of attention by making up stories about what supposedly happened while they were flatlined.

Answer 4

Can we learn about Heaven and Hell from near-death experiences? How accurate is the information shared?

Near-death experiences, as mentioned above, are quite different from death. Death is final, so near-death experiences can only tell us what it's like to come close to dying. The underlying false assumption is this: Coming close to death is the same as dying and being resurrected, and that's simply not true. Additionally, there are a lot of contradictions in the testimony of those who have had a near-death experience, making it impossible to create an accurate view of what awaits in eternity.

Many sincere people have had experiences that differ greatly from scriptural truth. How do you explain this?

People may be sincere, but that doesn't mean they aren't deluded. Satan and his army have no problem imitating angels, and even Christ. We are always to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God" (1 John 4:1). Another thing to consider: some near-death experiences are very traumatic, and the mind, faced with such trauma, may rework the experience into something more palatable. One of Randy's friends, a doctor, recounted an experience where a man who was initially struggling later recounted the experience as a wonderful dream of heaven. This incident wound up as a story thread in Randy's book Dominion.

In addition to the spiritual and psychological explanations, there are also a variety of medical explanations as well.

What are the medical explanations for what happens during near-death experiences?

Near-death experiences occur most frequently with cardiac arrest, resulting in blood loss to the brain, which begins to undergo dysfunction if deprived of blood supply for more than ten seconds. Higher consciousness is affected first, followed progressively by lower and lower levels of brain function. Like the orderly shutdown of a computer, more complex things go first, followed by more basic things later. This commonly occurs when fighter pilots "grey out" during periods of high acceleration, and many pilots have reported effects similar to near-death experiences.1

It is the continuation of basic brain functions that allow people to remember their near-death experience, as well as continue to hear the voices of doctors and relatives during that time, as hearing is one of the last brain functions to fail. Many other specifics of near-death experiences have explanations relating to changes in brain chemistry caused by lack of oxygen, including the "out of body" experience described by many.3 In short, many of the events common to near-death experiences have a biological origin, and are not glimpses of eternity at all.

Answer 5

Too many similar stories to write it off as subconscious dreams created by a dying brain. There are literally thousands of documented stories like that, and they all have very similar aspects. It's gotta make even the most jaded atheist wonder...

Answer 6

Maybe, maybe not

One thing I do believe though is that it's this life that's important, the one you are living now, not yesterday's and not tomorrow's. It's important to live and make the most of the present, every day, every hour, every second, every breath.

Enjoy!

Answer 7

Statistically, I do not think there has ever been a case where someone had and out of body experience that they were not on some sort of drugs/medications.

And since you do not get your eternal reward til Jesus returns...I think it is more subconscious, and in some cases even demonic influenced

Answer 8

i believe it, when you die your soul leaves you, but maybe it wasn't that persons time to die, so they go there and they get sent back by God, or the person is unconscious and half of his soul is up there and half down here but as soon as the doctors heal them or help them get back etc then they come back. even when we dream our spirit leaves us. don't listen to these weird atheists they are just scared that we are right and they are not.

Answer 9

Nope

Answer 10

According of what you have to understand in your live there is a limit to be able to comeback.
But if you are fit to go to Heaven, you don’t comeback.