(January 29, 2016 at 4:38 pm)scoobysnack Wrote:(January 29, 2016 at 10:56 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: If that is your definition of short, I'd hate to read a long testimonial.
Anyway, apart from the dude claiming to be an atheist, I don't see any indication of him ever being one. The article shows no logical thinking on his part or any attempt at rationalizing the event, if it did really happen.
But NDE, if you actually look into it, is hugely affected by a person's culture and environment, just like other occurrences like alien abductions. Hence I don't see how you can conclude a spritual evidence from it.
There is a entire book about his story, but that was the short version. The book obviously has more details which may answer some of your questions. I could suppose one could assume he was never an atheist, I've never done a background check on him. I did meet him when he came to my city to speak, and listened to his story, and he gave me a hug after I told him how he helped saved my life from suicide. He seemed sincere, and even cried a little while talking about the beings that tore him apart and while he was in the void, before calling out to Jesus, and then cried a little more telling his story of how he was so ashamed meeting Jesus after not believing in him and thinking anyone that did was a complete moron. He was so amazed that Jesus would forgive him for all the bad things he had done in his life which were shown to him in his life review, with all his secrets exposed.
If you want you can read countless near death experiences from different religions, cultures, gays, atheists etc. I posted this one because it was one of the more complete ones. The more you read about them, you start to see the patterns, and get the bigger picture. This website has a lot to check out if you wanted to read about other cultures:
http://www.near-death.com/
The thing is, none of this proves there's a portal between our world and any other world. The reasonable thing to think about all this in lack of any evidence is to assume that either a lot of people are lying about it, or it's all simply in their heads. Reading any number of similar stories won't prove a thing. The appropriate scientists have to study this phenomenon and report back on it. Until then, that's all they are - purported subjective experiences.