RE: Fear of hell, advice please
March 5, 2018 at 4:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2018 at 4:13 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 5, 2018 at 2:51 am)orthodox-man Wrote:(March 5, 2018 at 1:53 am)Succubus Wrote: Are you in any capacity affiliated with the website you quoted above?
Nope, I just read it to see what people report. I look for inconsistencies to try and see if I can stop beleiving in it. I find some inconsistencies, some interesting reports, so I am on the fence
That is a page than anyone can go and make up stories about NDE and people do make up stories (lies). Why they do it there are lots of reasons, but there are also people that desperatly want to belive in any indication that there is some sort of life after death so hence belif in Nostardamus, garden fairies, UFOs and billions of other things.
I would recommend you to read a book "Flim-Flam" by James Randi where he examines why people invent and then believe in such things. One of the many eye opening things is when he was on the radio show (in agreement with radio host) falsely claiming he was some guy that on his way to the station saw a UFO in some particular place in the town and when people heard that they started calling, claiming that they saw the same thing and in 30 minutes they determent shape of the craft, position, how many of other craft was there and direction they were flying. It's all because people love spooky stories and will do anything to be part of it - even lie.
Try looking at it this way: there is a thing called Controlled clinical death when during certain surgeries surgeons stop patient heart and lungs for some time (it can go up to 30 minutes if it's very cold) so they are dead. You have hundreds or even thousands of cases like that happening every day and no patient during that time experiences NDE or at least well over 99% of cases claim not to. They experience nothing.
If NDE was so common as "your" webpage claims then in our capitalist world there would be doctors just specialized to put people into Controlled clinical death so that they can see Jesus or Ra or Odin or whatever is supposed to be out there, but there isn't. Not just that but going into Controlled clinical death would be a religious custom; students of theology would be induced into Controlled clinical death to go and speak to Jesus and write doctorates, but they don't because when people die they don't encounter anybody.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
