Do you believe in any Christian themed near death experiences?

[Ervin P]

I used to believe in so called near death experiences. A lots of people say that they met Jesus in those experiences.

Do any of you think they are genuine experiences and do they point to truth?

 Thanks 
 

[Dennis1209]

Good question, and my personal thoughts are; I don't know?

There are plenty or NDE that appear to result in a true conversion and repentance, accepting the Lord Jesus as their own personal Lord and Savior. There are plenty or documented cases where people have left their bodies while apparently dead on operating tables and in hospitals; and seen things above drop ceilings, roofs with no visual access unless they were directly there; and described everything to a tee. They described verbatim what the doctors and nurses were doing and saying while they were apparently dead.

Medical science suggests it's a chemical / electrical reaction of oxygen starvation to the brain [an intense dream]? God works in mysterious ways comes to mind. 

Have you, or do you know someone that has suddenly faced an unexpected and immediate death; such as a major head on auto crash, about to drown or get shot, etc.? In many cases it's testified that their entire lives flashed before them in a second. I believe that, but how is it possible for the brain to process a lifetime of information, thoughts and actions in a split second or two? 

The experience of Stephen also come to mind:

Acts 7:55 (KJV) But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56. And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

[Ervin P]

Thanks Denis. I haven’t met anyone personally, but I have known someone whose father apparently had an NDE. 

Like you said, I have seen stories of atheists turning believers in God/Christ.

I don’t think every Christian agrees with them. Now if they are not genuine experiences, then what are they?

 

 Thanks 

[TheBlade]

Yes.. I believe some. There are allot.. where died for way over 30min. Doctor after Doctor.. talk about it. Its really great when the Doctor telling you.. does not even believe in Jesus.. and yet.. see this happen before his eyes.

[Who me]

On 5/19/2020 at 1:49 PM, Ervin P said:

I used to believe in so called near death experiences. A lots of people say that they met Jesus in those experiences.

Do any of you think they are genuine experiences and do they point to truth?

 Thanks 
 

 

Quite simple No I do not believe them, I see no need for their and think there aim is to confuse and mislead the gullible.

 

God himself came down to earth, as Wesley put it, ' Our God contracted to a span incomprehensible made man!'

He lived and taught us, we have all we need of his teaching in the Bible, he showed us how to live and died in our place a disgusting, degrading, vile, portracted death. So we do not have to face God's judgement and he rose from the tomb to show us he had achieved this.

 

What more do you want?

[missmuffet]

On 5/19/2020 at 5:49 AM, Ervin P said:

I used to believe in so called near death experiences. A lots of people say that they met Jesus in those experiences.

Do any of you think they are genuine experiences and do they point to truth?

 Thanks 
 

I think there is a lot of room for deception in those experiences. 

[Ervin P]

To be honest. A greater part of me thinks that they, the near death experiences are probably not true experiences.

But a part of me thinks that they might be true. What I like about some of the near death experiences is that they say that God is a Loving God and that He Loves everyone and even some people who where atheists prior to the experience say that God still loved them and that Gods Love is an Unconditional Love.

[ReuleauxMan]

I do believe in NDE's generally, and I've had a short one of my own when my mom had a placenta previa. She was bleeding almost to death and I was starved of oxygen, before an emergency C-section had to be performed and I had to be resuscitated.

The near-death experience went as follows. I was a point of consciousness surrounded by pure white, panning across the space and looking at my baby body laughing without abandon at something I couldn't see. Then I knew that I was that baby, and then the white light overtook everything and I was gone, to be followed by my life here.

The takeaway I have from the experience is the white light was God enveloping both me and the baby, binding soul and the baby's flesh together. The baby was taking great interest in and thoroughly enjoying something besides me altogether, and I was to be that person enjoying that besides me. Unfortunately, the childhood bullying and emotional neglect I was subjected to made me focus almost exclusively on myself, and I had lost that joy I came here with, but God restoreth me ?.

Edited July 18, 2020 by ReuleauxMan

[Figure of eighty]

On 6/6/2020 at 11:02 PM, Roar said:

It depends. As someone who has experienced a near death event I can only judge my own. I went in for a common knew replacement and the next thing I know I am being escorted to this GIANT ornate door. I'm standing there and thinking to myself oh crap someone really messed up because that is got to be "death's doorway". I was not allowed to see the two beings escorting me but I do know they were Huge! I'm 6'5" and they towered over me I could tell out of my peripheral vision. Suddenly, I was turned around and the next thing I know I'm waking up in the ICU. 

I believe some people's experiences are very much real.  All such events should be tried against the World of God. 

Do you know where you wefe going? 

[Marathoner]

I'm in agreement with @Roar. Anything we experience --- be it near-death or otherwise --- that is of the Lord will not only withstand the testing of spirits but will also bear fruit according to His Holy Spirit. The conviction of God's Spirit... repentance.... restoration... these were some of the fruits which followed my experience in the shadow of death. Prior to this I lived in open rebellion against the Son of God for many years, resisting the One who chose me before I was conceived in my mother's womb. Ah, but Jesus Christ knew of this all along. Nothing is hidden from the sight of Almighty God! 

I elected to expend my life for the sake of another. In doing so I pushed beyond the limits of my endurance, irrevocably breaking this body and mind: I was a dead man. I longed for the release of death knowing there was no return to the land of the living; this was when I found myself in the presence of the Lord. I couldn't look up on account of the glare so all I could do was cast my gaze toward the ground --- I never saw the Lord with these eyes nor could I --- and the living One, who was slain and whom rose from the dead, was silent while I wept in amazement and confusion. How could this be? The Lord God, who called to me so long ago and whom I subsequently denied, was with me at my end. The Lord did an impossible thing:

God rolled up time and space like a scroll, restoring that moment when He first called out to me. After the vision He sent was finished Christ bid me to speak; I begged for Him to release me from that strange place which wasn't life but also wasn't death. God restored me instead, promising that I would never taste death. The years of my foolish rebellion were over, friends. I called upon the name of the Lord and this pleased Him... Christ sent His Spirit to dwell with me always. 

We may judge all things by its fruit. 

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by Marathoner