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Anyone have a near death experience?

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Nobody goes to heaven or hell at death.

Our dead loved ones cannot come back and talk to us.

Eccl 9:5 "The dead know not anything".

Ps 146:4 - "in that very day their thoughts perish".

Matt 22 "God is not the god of the dead".

We (our souls) survive the first death in the dormant state.

John 11 "Our friend Lazarus sleeps - I go that I may wake him"

The danger of going against God's word on this -- is illustrated in detail here -

Roger Morneau A Trip Into The Supernatural (full testimony) - YouTube
 
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I would love to hear your story. Interest in this subject as a teen lead to my becoming a Christian. You may also discuss experiences that others have shared with you.

I began studying the near death experience accounts in 1990 after reading a Psychology Today article on the subject.

Since that time I have became a little obsessed with the subject because frankly, I had been taught a very dogmatic version of the "soul sleep" doctrine since I was a teenager!

The NDE of Howard STorm answered many of my nine year old daughters questions regarding what happens to us after death! I read his book My Descent Into Death a couple of years ago.

Have you heard about the NDE of the little guy, Burpo yet?


Heaven is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back - Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
 
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This is EXACTLY what I used to believe Bob Ryan!!!!!


George Ritchie - near-death experiences


Having researched this topic extensively I now have to look at the words of the Apostle Paul in a whole new light!!!!!

II Corinthians 12:2-4:


The number one conclusion I came to after rethinking these verses by Paul was that if the Apostle Paul refused to be dogmatic on this subject....then I had better not attempt to speak with authority on a subject that I certainly did not understand with authority?????!!!!
 
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I would love to hear your story. Interest in this subject as a teen lead to my becoming a Christian. You may also discuss experiences that others have shared with you.
My near death experience.

When I was 16 years old I was driving my dad's car on an icy road in the country on Thanksgiving Day. I lost control of the car and it rolled over. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, this was many years ago. I nearly died, but I came out of that accident without a single scratch. The car was a total wreck. That's my near death experience. What do you think?
 
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Nice thread.

I don't at all doubt the stories, but the theology taught by "Jesus" in them can sometimes be very different from what we read in the NT. Be careful.


I may be seriously in error but I have came to strongly suspect the difference between what Rabbi Jesus/Yehoshua taught while he was human was related to linear time but now that He is in His glorified form He can comment on a much longer term plan which includes what we might come to be shown is that perhaps time branches like a menorah, or simply "timelessness?!?!"

Do you believe that Rabbi Jesus/Yehoshua is entirely overjoyed with a plan of many called but only few chosen and an Auschwitz type of environment in higher dimensions of space-time is all too real?????

Those statements are true but once time like a menorah with branches or timelessness itself is fully revealed then many called, few chosen, a broad way leading to destruction that many find and a narrow way leading to life, is probably not the ultimate paradigm?!

I strongly suspect that the Apostle Paul was coming rather close to revealing some of those "unlawful" ideas that he had been shown in this series of passages:



Romans 11:30
Timelessness or time like a menorah may eventually explain all the differences between Rabbi Jesus/Yehoshua's teachings while he was human, vs what He teaches now that He is again in His glorified form?!?!

http://www.drbo.org/chapter/30006.htm
[6] For my angel is with you: And I myself will demand an account of your souls.

This verse in the Catholic Bible may reveal the being of light who meets people at the time of death, and asks a question along the line of "what did you do with your life that you can show me" may be none other than the God of Abraham/YHWh the Logos/Word who became Rabbi Jesus/Yehoshua??????
 
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A couple of decades ago I met a young guy who had a car accident. He stated that he was somehow above his body and watched as his body was loaded into the ambulance!

He says that he met with angels or former humans while he was out of his body but he did not know who they were! He was only 15 when it happened and didn't know that many people who had passed on.

He says that he was transformed by his experience and we from being a rather lousy student in General subjects to taking Academic and getting A's. He also got so motivated that he ended up being assistant manager in a business in his spare time!
 
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