How can there be life after death?

[Peter1]

I was possessed 3 times about a year and a half ago believe me the afterlife is real - I am still recovering.The most horrible experience you could ever imagine I spent about 4 weeks in the hospital after it happened and I can still remember most of it.The first one made me destroy religious items in my home and more which I will not talk about.The second one drove me out of my home and I walked 20 miles not knowing where I was going I just about froze to death that night and almost died I was completely exhausted. I really believed I was out on the street and had no home..The third one filled my mind with garbage making me hallucinate driving me out of my home again the police picked me and brought me to the hospital all I was wearing was a pair of shorts.I am lucky to be alive today and am grateful to God.

This is first time I have ever shared this with anyone.I guess people will think I went crazy trust me it was real.

 

[Mancunian]

I was possessed 3 times about a year and a half ago believe me the afterlife is real - I am still recovering.The most horrible experience you could ever imagine I spent about 4 weeks in the hospital after it happened and I can still remember most of it.The first one made me destroy religious items in my home and more which I will not talk about.The second one drove me out of my home and I walked 20 miles not knowing where I was going I just about froze to death that night and almost died I was completely exhausted. I really believed I was out on the street and had no home..The third one filled my mind with garbage making me hallucinate driving me out of my home again the police picked me and brought me to the hospital all I was wearing was a pair of shorts.I am lucky to be alive today and am grateful to God.

This is first time I have ever shared this with anyone.I guess people will think I went crazy trust me it was real.

So why did your experiences lead you to the conclusion that the afterlife is real?

 

[Debp]

I was possessed 3 times about a year and a half ago believe me the afterlife is real - I am still recovering.The most horrible experience you could ever imagine I spent about 4 weeks in the hospital after it happened and I can still remember most of it.The first one made me destroy religious items in my home and more which I will not talk about.The second one drove me out of my home and I walked 20 miles not knowing where I was going I just about froze to death that night and almost died I was completely exhausted. I really believed I was out on the street and had no home..The third one filled my mind with garbage making me hallucinate driving me out of my home again the police picked me and brought me to the hospital all I was wearing was a pair of shorts.I am lucky to be alive today and am grateful to God.

This is first time I have ever shared this with anyone.I guess people will think I went crazy trust me it was real.

I know someone at another forum. They were involved in the occult and were delivered by Jesus Christ. Their occult experiences are so bad that they will not talk about it.

Also a pastor, Rev Chris Wickland, in the UK was a satanist in his youth. He likewise was delivered by Jesus Christ.

 

[ProDeo]

Why are Christians so afraid of life having an end point? Why must one live forever when one didn't exist for billions of years and seemed to not suffer from it?

Non-existence is not to be feared. It's a return to the experience we all had before we were born. Which is to say, no experience at all. Why is everyone so frightened of this? I don't get it.

What if ?

 

[ProDeo]

But can one truly call it belief if you're making the decision to follow Jesus while under such a threat?

In order that you can't complain that you did not know.

 

[ProDeo]

Exactly.
That is the hook.
Once you have released yourself from the hook there's nothing to fear.

No Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie doubt ?

 

[ProDeo]

From a mainstream scientific perspective, near-death experiences (NDEs) are profound psychological and physiological phenomena triggered by severe stress, trauma, or the dying brain, rather than evidence of an afterlife.

Key Neurobiological Explanations

• Cerebral Ischemia and Anoxia: As the brain is deprived of oxygen and blood flow (such as during cardiac arrest), local brain regions shut down sequentially. This malfunction can cause tunnel vision, bright lights, and a sense of floating.
• Neurotransmitter Surges: Extreme physiological crises trigger the release of chemicals like endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin, which can induce feelings of deep peace, euphoria, or dissociation.
• Electrical Activity in the Dying Brain: Recent studies in neuroscience have recorded high-frequency gamma oscillations and synchronized brain activity in some patients shortly after cardiac arrest or life support withdrawal. Researchers suggest the dying brain may still be capable of intense, dream-like cognitive processing or memory integration.
• Evolutionary Threat Responses: Some neuroscientists view NDE features as a phylogenetically preserved defense or coping mechanism activated during life-threatening danger.

Assumptions on a phenomenon that can't be tested in a scientific way.

 

[ProDeo]

Do you still feel special?

Yes, we as only species have a conscience, can feel guilt, can learn the difference between good and evil, the reason why we are here. Unlike all animals and other living creatures we can reason, we can make willfully free choices, good choices, evil choices. Human kind developed a moral system, installed judges punishing evil doers.

Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

With all the features as described above.

Any animal lacks all that, it just behaves as it is created, has no morals.

 

[Debp]

Why are Christians so afraid of life having an end point? Why must one live forever when one didn't exist for billions of years and seemed to not suffer from it?

Non-existence is not to be feared. It's a return to the experience we all had before we were born. Which is to say, no experience at all. Why is everyone so frightened of this? I don't get it.

I'm not afraid of that. But I do believe Jesus when He says He goes to prepare a place for us.

P.S. It's a wonderful life to be a Christian, peace with God through forgiveness of our sins.

 

[ProDeo]

@Riven @Mancunian

PROMISES

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I [Jesus] stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Jer 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jer 29:12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Jer 29:13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.