Dr. Habermas shares some of the best kind of Near Death Experiences.
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Thank you, Dr. Habermas!
As a Bible believer, I’m faced with a dilemma, do I believe in the prevailing NDE, or what the Bible teaches about death?
The Bible clearly teaches the view that when a person dies, their ruach or spirit goes to God but their nephesh dies or as the Bible says sleeps until the day of resurrection (1 Thessalonians 4:13 et al; Daniel 12:2-3; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53)
Secondly, and most clearly that the wages of sin is death and the sinner that sins will die! The first lie told by Satan in the garden was you shall not surely die! (Genesis 3:4-6) when God said otherwise. The real issue here is: is the soul immortal? Ecclesiastes 9:8 says that the dead know not anything and 1 Tim 6:16 says that only God has immortality, and God is everlasting unto everlasting (psalm 41:13; 90:92 and Rev 14:6-7.
Thirdly, this concept again was the view that the early Jews believed about sheol or the grave and hades in the Greek (Acts chapter 2:29). It wasn’t soon after the apostolic age that the influence of Hellenistic and pagan Greek philosophy of Neoplatonism (ie: the immortal soul)started to dominate the Christian mindset.
The Catholic Church started to developing the theological view that people would go to heaven or hell (or purgatory or limbo later on) after death.
This would also be used to basis of prayer, talking and devotion to the saints and later Mary. Basically necromancy which the Bible forbids.
Many like to point out Jesus’ words to the thief on the cross of being with him in paradise on the day that he died. (Luke 23:43) However there’s several exegetical problems here.
1. Primarily, in John 20:17, Jesus tells Mary not to touch him because he had yet to ascended, if he had yet to ascend, how could he had promised the thief to be in paradise on Friday?
2. The Greek did not have any commas and all the letters ran into each other. Wouldn’t it be a better translation for Jesus say: very very I’m telling you at right now that you will be with me in paradise? In other words, in the future in the resurrection, but not that day.
When before Jesus raised Lazarus and tells Martha that Lazarus will resurrect, she says basically that she knows that her brother will be in the resurrection!!
Finally, I can’t deny that people are having these experiences, but I’m sure there are alternative explanations.
1. Are they possibly hallucinating and see what their culture has taught them what to expect. After all these NDE are often inconsistent
2. Does God show these things so that people should repent?
3. People are spiritually vulnerable to deception at that time?
4. A lot of the times people’s NDE especially concerning hell are fanciful in their descriptions, more like Dante’s inferno rather than the Bible. 2 Peter 3, says that hell is to be in the future as does Malachi 4:1.
All I know is that the NDE and the biblical view are contradictory. As for myself I’ll stick with Gods word.
My two favorite evidentialist apologists!
Where are these NDE’s being compiled? How would an average person hear about them if it werent for Mr Habermas?