Near-Death Experiences

[Lewis]

Near-Death Experiences: What Happens in the Brain Before Dying

http://news.yahoo.com/near-death-experiences-happens-brain-dying-080751857.html
In the moments before death, the heart plays a central role, conventional wisdom says. That is, as the heart stops beating and blood stops flowing, the rest of the body slowly shuts down. But new research suggests this view may be wrong.

 

[Kidron]

Every time you are in a car passing another car that is 3 feet away > that is just across the center line and traveling in the opposite directing, you are having a "near death experience".
Every beat of your heart is a "near death" experience.
Every second you are awake is a "near death" experience.
Death is closer then you think and it sooner then you think.
Wake up and do something that matters....while you still have time.

 

[KevinK]

My personal opinion here, but...the whole term "near death experience" is wrong from the start. It automatically loads a bias that the experiencer did not actually die, but just came close to dying and was subject to abnormal cognition. It reflects the stubborness of scientists (of which I'm one) to consider the spiritual environment. It is not a near-death experience, it is a post-death experience, and a subsequent reanimation of the physical body. Whether you believe that these instances are actual spiritual events or not is a matter of debate, but the continued use of this misnomer just clouds the issue in a straw-mannish sort of way. I'm not sure what the chances are of changing the terminology at this point.

 

[YosefHayim]

Do people in graves have near life experiences?

 

[Edward]

Do people in graves have near life experiences?

Even though this sounds like a joke, it's actually a pretty good question. I think they do in that, saved people who pass on go to be with God in spirit and soul. Non-believers who pass on, no. Their spirit (which is the life force from God and belongs to God) returns to God, and the persons soul goes to sheol to wait. They being separated from God and their spirit have no hope of life anymore.

So the short answer is some of them do.

 

[turnorburn]

The testimonies of both saved and unsaved appear in this section, to inform you of the last words and thoughts of people who have went in either direction. There are not many better things to help the Christian prepare for the hereafter and to keep their eyes fixed on eternal glory than to be ever pondering the day of separation of body from soul and spirit.

http://theinvisiblechurch.ca/testimony/testimony.html

tob

 

[dianegcook]

Well, I did die, shortly revived, don't remember nothing, lol, maybe God erased my memory.

Even though this sounds like a joke, it's actually a pretty good question. I think they do in that, saved people who pass on go to be with God in spirit and soul. Non-believers who pass on, no. Their spirit (which is the life force from God and belongs to God) returns to God, and the persons soul goes to sheol to wait. They being separated from God and their spirit have no hope of life anymore.

So the short answer is some of them do.

In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:22-31, so you believe it was the spirit of the rich man that was in hedes?

 

[Edward]

Well, I did die, shortly revived, don't remember nothing, lol, maybe God erased my memory.
In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:22-31, so you believe it was the spirit of the rich man that was in hedes?

No, I think only the soul of the rich man was in Hades. His spirit would've been with God because it belongs to God. That must be part of the torment, the absolute separation of man's soul from God and His Spirit.

I'm not sure about Lazarus. Maybe, being a believer, his spirit was still with him in Abrahams Bosom? I think it worked differently back then before Jesus came and implemented the New Covenant by His death on the cross. I think it changed then because Jesus was purported to go and empty Abrahams Bosom and now (since the veil has been lifted (torn)), we go directly to heaven or where Jesus is when we pass now.

 

[JeffS]

I think many of these near death experiences are deceptions because you see plenty of people who don't know Jesus and then come back and claim that everything is wonderful. When we know that since they are lost it would be far from wonderful