tHERE ARE TWO VERY INTERESTING VIDEOS AT yOU tUBE i VERY MUCH WANTED TO POST HERE BUT i'VE BEEN UNABLE TO SEE WELL ENOUGH TO COPY AND PASTE THE LINKS. oNE IS A PANEL DISCUSSION BY SIX SCIENTIESTS ABOUT VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE QUESTION OF THE AFTERLIFE WHICH THEY EACH STUDY IN DIFFERENT WAYS. tHE OTHER VIDEO IS A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SAME SUBJCT THAT INCLUDES MANY INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD NEAR DEATHEXPERIENCES AS WELL AS A RESEARCHER INTO THE PHENOMENA. That's the best I can do to identifyh them, I can't even read the titles or the names involved or anything.
Street interviews about what people believe about the afterlife show that a lot of people say they do, but it's the usual vague idea that everybody goes to heaven. Even the few who identify as Christians and think there is both a heaven and a hell don't show any understanding of how we go to either plade, it's the usual idea that if you are good you go to heaven and if you are bad to hell.
From my pretty standard orthodox Christian point of view this topic looks like huge deception that is very popular these days and it makes me wonder what the point is, why Satan is so interested in deceiving people in this particular way at this time. Why does he want people to have these pretty pictures of the afterlife that make them fearless about death. I'
For the researchers the question is simply whether or not there is an afterlife, since they are operating within the assumptions of science that the physical world is all there is and that death ends our existence. As I listen to it, believing as I do tghat the Bible is the world of God, I just think how futile all this is since the Bible makes it very clear rthat we are not confined to this life, that there is a heaven and a hell, and people come back to life on many occasions in both the old and new testaments.
But they dismiss the bible as just one of many records of life after death, at best, and it doesn't figure at all in most conversations about these things. We know there is an afterlife because the bible has revealed it to us.
And we know there are only two desginations after death, either heaven or hell, and that the only way anyone goes to heaven is by trusting in the sacrificie of Chrizt on the cross to pay for our sins. the Bible is explicit that good deads wil not get anyone to heaven, that is repeated in many parts of the New Testament and implicit in the Old Testament references to the sacrificial sstem. Nobody can go to heaven who is not absolutely pure and perfect and no human being comes close to that. It is only through the gift of Jesus' sacrifice that we can be made fit for heaven. Without that sacrifice and our fatih in it we go to Hell. That's the default destination for all human beings since we are a fallen race, fallen meaning we inherit the disobedience of our first parents against God and add our own sins to that original sin.
So all tthese near death experiences are lies, and the question becomes wny. If all people are destined for Hell anyway, what is the point of adding this new layer of deception to lead people to expectg a benighn afterlife no matter how they've lived. Qwell, actually, most who have such experiences do feel they have to become better people as a result and try to life a better life, doing more good deeds and so on.
B what is never even hinted atg in all these studies and experiences is the true gospel of Christ that requires us to believe in His death in order to be saved. We need to be changed, born again, our spirit regenerated through our faith in Christ, and then we are fit for heaven, our sins covewred as we begin to learn to live tghat better life which can never be good enough for heaven or the prsence of God. Not a whiff of that doctrine is ever heard in any of these researches.
I have to suppose this is all part of the preparation for the last days scenario in which the Antichrist will rule the world, part of the global religion that is to be part of his reign, part of the scenario of the perfect world according to Satan thnat he wants to bring about on this planet. According to biblical prophecy it will be very short lived, lasting only a few short years before Jesus returns to rule and reign.
It must be very close. The signs have been piling up over the last few years or decades. Poor poor sad sinful human race. They
What the Bible makes clear throughout is the overarching omnipresence of the Moral Law of God, the fact that the universe is governed by that Moral Law, that we are all subject to it at every moment of our lives, that what happens in the world reflects its judgmenets, which are God's judgments, so that everything from hurricanes to earthquakes are to be understood as conseuences of sin or violations of the Moral Law. The sad thing is that if we all acknowledged God and prayed all the time about everything the dire consequences of our violations of the Law would be powerfully mitigated, but because most of fallen humanity denies God those judgments are only going to increase as time goes on.
The fact that people come back from their supposed trips to heaven with a desire to live a better life is at least a tacit acknowlegement of the Moral Law but otherwise it's completely ignored in all these discussions. Those who talk about hell for the wrongdoers acknowlege it of course but still it isn't getting the recogniztion it actually warrants.
The Moral Law is the reason Jesus had to die for us. Only He could obey it perfectly and that made Him the perfect substitute for us, to die on our place to pay for the sins we deserved His death for but couldn't ever atone for, so tht Hell is our only possible destination after death. He fulfilled the Moral Law perfectly and imputed His own obedience to us, taking our disobedience onto Himself. That's the only way it could have been done. but of course not a hint of any of that comes into discussions of the afterlife by unbelievers.
