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Discussion Do NDE revelations effect how you interpret scripture?

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Do NDE revelations of the light and the fires... effect how you interpret the Bible? It seems everyone even from suicide return with a new resolution to love others and do something good with their lives.

In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, it changed the rich man's views.
 

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Have searched Scripture because of them.

"If they see a bright light, it doesnt necessarily mean it was God. Because "Satan himself" masquerades as an angel of light (II COR 11:14)

Life reviews - there's books in heaven. Among other things, wondered how long that would take but God isnt limited by our time - or anything else.
"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.' (Rev 20:12).

Also, what are their lives afterwards? Granted it can take years for them to process but when they realize it was God, what changes do they make?

Some consider death iwhen they meet the medical definition, the natural one. But we're also spirit. (spirit, soul, and body, I Thess 5:23).
"For as the body without the spirit is dead..." (Jam 2:26). For believers, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." (II Cor 5:8). Seems death is when both the spirit and soul leave the body permanently - God decides.
 

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I hope that it wouldn't affect how I interpret the Bible, but I am human, and make mistakes.

I have a friend who had a near death experience and it did change her view of God. She sees Him as much bigger now than she had before. I describe it as her having touched infinity.
 
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Because of Satan, not having the qualities of Abraham and Moses, it is safest to check by the Bible.

People try to love harder after being loved in the light, but they may go askew and sometimes it ends in divorce.

Some become thrill seekers.

Some will not listen to clergy but only ever hear an NDE...
 
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