07-28-2014, 02:05 AM
I have two problems with NDE's... Once, they do tend to vary depending on a person's culture. http://www.horizonresearch.org/main_page.php?cat_id=66
Two, in the case of heaven and hell, the bible does make it quite clear that when a person dies they go into the grave and stay their until the final trump (Judgement Day). Doctrine (based on catholic interpretation from way hella back with lots of fudging), came up with the constant of reaching ones final destination at the completion of life.
Which brings me to my third point (yes I lied, so sue me)... I died and for me there was nothing, no lights, tunnels, friendly faces or for that matter flames.
I suspect this lack of experience rests on the fact that when I died I was a firm believer of the concept of 'soul sleep' where the body goes to the grave, the soul sleeps to await the final judgement.
While I have no doubt these people experience something, I doubt that what they are experiencing is the hereafter.
I firmly believe Will Shakespeare summed it up nicely:
But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have 88 Than fly to others that we know not of?
I suspect that death is and perhaps always will remain that undiscovered country.
Two, in the case of heaven and hell, the bible does make it quite clear that when a person dies they go into the grave and stay their until the final trump (Judgement Day). Doctrine (based on catholic interpretation from way hella back with lots of fudging), came up with the constant of reaching ones final destination at the completion of life.
Which brings me to my third point (yes I lied, so sue me)... I died and for me there was nothing, no lights, tunnels, friendly faces or for that matter flames.
I suspect this lack of experience rests on the fact that when I died I was a firm believer of the concept of 'soul sleep' where the body goes to the grave, the soul sleeps to await the final judgement.
While I have no doubt these people experience something, I doubt that what they are experiencing is the hereafter.
I firmly believe Will Shakespeare summed it up nicely:
But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have 88 Than fly to others that we know not of?
I suspect that death is and perhaps always will remain that undiscovered country.
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