Or it's just a lie. People who are clinically dead for 11 minutes stay dead. Don't people at least watch hospital TV shows? How many times did you have a case when someone is dead for 5 minutes and they bring him back to life but only as a braindead vegetable? It's because the brain dies after not getting oxygen for 4 minutes.
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"
