What Does the Christian Community say about Near Death Experiences?

[Davy]

I think that was disproven here already.

I'm not so sure of that, otherwise there wouldn't be so much effort in trying to prove the resurrection is to another flesh body.

 

[Davy]

Indeed that second scenario is not a resurrection from the dead - rather it is reviving someone who is not quite dead and most certainly has not undergone cell death in the brain.

Yes, it is a reviving after the individual experienced evidence of that other dimension, and returned to tell about it, like the one Paul spoke of in 2 Cor.12. And it also fits Eccl.12 with the "silver cord" not being severed, otherwise his flesh would have started decaying back to the earthy elements. Everything fits in Scripture also if we truly heed it.

 

[Davy]

It is easier to read than you may have at fist supposed.

Eccl 9:5 5 For the living know that they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have a reward any longer, for their memory is forgotten.

So this is about those who have died in Christ Jesus???

Eccl 9:5-6
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
KJV

Those in Christ Jesus "neither have they any more a reward", and "the memory of them is forgotten"? and they don't have a portion anymore in anything done under the sun, meaning even in the world to come?? I didn't know that! That of course, IF true for those in Christ that died, would go 100% against what Apostle Paul taught in 1 Thessalonians 4 about those who sleep in Jesus!

So like I said, most don't understand how to interpret that Ecclesiastes 9 Chapter, and often misuse it when trying to explain who the 'dead' are. Here's the real 'dead' it is pointing to...

Isa 26:14
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
KJV

The word "deceased" is one of two places in the KJV translation where they did not translate it from the Hebrew to Rephaim, which is what it means. The Rephaim were the giant-hybrids that was one of the reasons God told the children of Israel entering into the land of Canaan to destroy certain Canaanite nations there.

This Isaiah 26:14 Scripture is one of the Bible proofs of the existence of the giant hybrids as a real race of giants caused by the angels mating with flesh woman per Genesis 6. How's that? Because this verse tells us "they shall not rise", meaning these "dead" will not be resurrected. We know that all souls ordained to be born in the flesh will be resurrected when Jesus comes, per John 5:28-29, and that includes the unsaved of the "resurrection of damnation". But these here, the Rephaim, will not be raised from the dead, thus all memory of them is gone!

Thus in God's Word, there is a difference between those who die and are spiritually asleep, vs. the truly 'dead' like the Rephaim that are literally and spiritually dead already.