Christians:Can Near Death Experiences (NDEs) be considered evidence of the Christian idea of afterlife when NDEs [Spirituality & Religion]
[b]experienced by people of other faiths result in them experiencing visions appropriate to the culture and religion they were raised in?[/b]
That is to say, either NDEs cannot be used to validate the truth of Christianity [i]or[/i] NDEs can be used to validate the truth of every religion equally.
There was a guy in the news a few days ago that had an NDE and said God was wearing timberlands. So yeah. Believers always say experience trumps facts, but what happens when every experience is subjective and different? There was one woman I heard of that had an NDE and said that she was told by God that you wont be shocked out of or into a different system of belief. So Buddhists reach nirvana, Wiccans reach Summerland, Abrahamics reach Heaven. The whole idea of an infinite God making a one size fits all system has always bothered me. The Bible says it is one size fits all but experience (which believers put great faith in) says something completely different.
@Pikachu If God exists he is way more impressive than the small God of believers. Believers most of the time make God look so small and petty and limited.
As someone who has died and been resuscitated, i can tell you from my experience that it'a sll a myth, when you die, you die, black, nothingness, no pearly gates, no purgatory, no hell, just blank, black. I was brought back to life after 5 minutes of my heart being stopped completely, no pulse, nothing. So forgive me if i am very skeptical at anything called an "NDE", I had an "FDE" fully dead experience and saw nothing at all...
Wow that's scary. But NDE's are a real thing that happens. They are not something that happens to everyone but they do happen. I just don't think they're anything but the hallucinations of a dying brain.
@Pikachu You may well be right, i don't think anyone knows where or how or why but it just didn't happen to me, shit happens and i was lucky, very lucky.
NDE's don't prove nor disprove anything at all. There's lots of different types of NDE's as well, not JUST the Christian version of an afterlife. This is just my theory but what if we had a heaven, hell, purgatory or reincarnation without a God? Why do people assume that it has to be all connected. But all I have is ideas and theorizing, I can't use NDE's to prove heaven exists but if heaven does exist as well as reincarnation it doesn't prove God.. it doesn't disprove either though.
I think she did. and true we always dream of people we don’t know. She also spoke of very random people she knew in the past who were alive at the time and died later that year. @NortiusMaximus
