I've read some accounts of people who died, experienced the afterlife, and came back. The ones which impress me the most are those which motivate people to change their lives markedly for the better. I have no dount that some of those experiences were real.
Dear Harmon,
I agree! We are to judge the tree by the fruit it bears. If someone comes back a more loving and compassionate person, then something good must have happened to change their life. As for the reincarnation bit at the bottom, I have to assume the previous personalities are demons.
I have read Orthodox books on the afterlife, and they do not believe the experiences were real, but rather that the light they see, is the light of their own body...and then again, we do know that the body does not really enter a heavenly realm until after the fortieth day. We also know that as a person is dying, they are in the presence of their dead relatives and friends...yet, what realm are they in?
Still in all, I think the disbelieving theologians, by discarding the near death experiences, are merely configuring them into their own concepts and knowledge of the afterlife. It seems they're doing a poor job of it.
I guess like me!
God Bless,
Zenovia
