How can christians consider near death experiences to be evidence that their faith is true... [Spirituality & Religion]
...when people from different religions and cultures experience NDEs in the context of [i]their[/i] religion?
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My mom loves the topic of NDE's. What she has found is that a lot of people tend to come back with different views from what they had before. Like the dogma of people seems to fall away for a lot of people and they begin to see the things in life that are really important.
Every now and then someone will have an experience in a different religion but it is not common and tends to be based on the person's predominant culture. That seems to be what influences NDE's the most.
If I remember correctly only 10-20% of NDE's are negative as well. That is visions of punishment and Hell. Most of them even if they start out bad usually end up peaceful and loving after a while.
Although weeding out legit NDE's from people making up stories is important as well. Religious people love to make up stories. I remember when I was younger and would attend church classes all the other members would talk about how they heard demons of the phone or in their music or saw this or that. And I'm thinking, "no you didn't." Cause I could listen to the same stuff and at most hear shitty music.
I've learned since then people do that as a herd mentality. They want to be part of the group and seen as impressive and or important so they make stuff up to impress the others. But NDE's rarely show that kind of stuff.
Also I believe the percentage of people that experience NDE's follows the same percentage of religious people. Which is around 40%. The UK did a study of NDE's on heart patients having NDE's. Only one I believe brought back any proof of conscious after death. He told about continuing to hear the machines beeping at three minute intervals after he was clinically dead. Although that can be taken with a grain of salt because clinically dead doesn't have to mean dead dead. Some processes in the body for instance can take up to three days to die. So this person could simply have been dead to the point the machines couldn't detect life.
It's certainly an interesting topic.
Couple of sources:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2014/10/07-worlds-largest-near-death-experiences-study.page
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1693-no-medical-explanation-for-near-death-experiences/
Every now and then someone will have an experience in a different religion but it is not common and tends to be based on the person's predominant culture. That seems to be what influences NDE's the most.
If I remember correctly only 10-20% of NDE's are negative as well. That is visions of punishment and Hell. Most of them even if they start out bad usually end up peaceful and loving after a while.
Although weeding out legit NDE's from people making up stories is important as well. Religious people love to make up stories. I remember when I was younger and would attend church classes all the other members would talk about how they heard demons of the phone or in their music or saw this or that. And I'm thinking, "no you didn't." Cause I could listen to the same stuff and at most hear shitty music.
I've learned since then people do that as a herd mentality. They want to be part of the group and seen as impressive and or important so they make stuff up to impress the others. But NDE's rarely show that kind of stuff.
Also I believe the percentage of people that experience NDE's follows the same percentage of religious people. Which is around 40%. The UK did a study of NDE's on heart patients having NDE's. Only one I believe brought back any proof of conscious after death. He told about continuing to hear the machines beeping at three minute intervals after he was clinically dead. Although that can be taken with a grain of salt because clinically dead doesn't have to mean dead dead. Some processes in the body for instance can take up to three days to die. So this person could simply have been dead to the point the machines couldn't detect life.
It's certainly an interesting topic.
Couple of sources:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2014/10/07-worlds-largest-near-death-experiences-study.page
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1693-no-medical-explanation-for-near-death-experiences/
