(March 7, 2018 at 12:30 am)orthodox-man Wrote:(March 6, 2018 at 11:48 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: So are the Christian, like that bestseller book and a movie "The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven", it's author Alex Malarkey wrote:
"I did not die. I did not go to Heaven. I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue to."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/...-pull-book
Imagine that. So many people not only believed him, but still do and many NDE experts proclaimed it to be genuine. Not to mention that writing book about NDE will most likely get you to bestseller list gives people a lot of motivation to claim NDE and write books about it.
I know Christians lie, but I assume at least 90% of their NDEs are genuine, I don't think they lie on purpose, but I agree some definitely do. I also wonder if they could have slightly changed the story after influence from others and years of retelling it before it is published. However, it just seems there are so many Christian ones, and the NDEs from other cultures seem so sketchy. I'm not saying for a fact it proves Christianity. If it is in fact only hallucinations, I want to know why Christians hallucinate Jesus, whereas Muslims rarely hallucinate Muhammad. If it is really true that we can shape our hallucinations, that may answer the question.
I wouldnt put it like that. What I said yes to was worded differently from how youre wording it now. Ideas can shape hallucinations, but not necessarily you consciously shaping them.
