Near-Death Experiences and the Dynamic Love of Christ - Erik Jerde
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- Erik Jerde, co-founder of Jesus & The Near Death Experience Facebook group, describes how NDEs and the concept of universal salvation seem to be mutual supportive.
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Oh wow! I love this so much!
I’m convinced that we misunderstood judgement, and Jesus warned us that the Spirit of Truth would have to correct our views about sin, righteousness and judgement (John 16).
Thank you for these wonderful words of hope to all God’s creation, Erik.❤
I love you, brother.
Recently, I started watching on TH-cam people's sharing of their near-death experiences. I do see the huge focus on loving others, life reviews, and the awareness of God's unconditional love enveloping them. This video presentation was helpful in cementing in my mind beautiful traits of these experiences and the way that they express God's love for us.
Thanks Erik, I need to come back to this.
Love the longer form versions! I experienced an NDE that mirrors much of what was said. That was over 40 years ago. I was not a believer in Christ at the time. Most impactfull event of my lifetime. All praise to the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.....even me, even you.
How wonderful and fascinating! I am curious, do you have total recall of your near-death experience, like this speaker mentioned?
@bcburt2000 I do remember it all. I have untold times over the ensuing decades brought to mind the intense impressions I experienced in order to cement this information solidly within my heart. Everything seemed to occur outside of any reference to sensations of physicality. Words were not spoken but communication was crystal clear and carried with it an emotional language that I seemed to inherently know but had never spoken. Sorry, I could go on and on. I carry it with me.....
@@1FoundSheep that's beautiful
There's an endless supply of 'sins of the world' where does this sheep-faced Jesus idol take them away to?
Funny how this came up - recently I read several books on NDEs and they helped put my mind at ease.
Thank you 🎉
This is probably one of the best videos you've ever released
I always thought that A Christmas Carol was an NDE. I researched it and sure enough Charles Dickens had an NDE.
That's very interesting. Can you share a few details, or point to somewhere I can learn more about it?
@@Crime_Mime I could not find the original article but this will give some insight.
FROM CHARLES DICKENS TO THOSE WHO RETURN FROM DEATH: ALLEGED INSIGHTS INTO THE FUTURE
The other day we linked to an article about the famed author Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol) and how once he reportedly had a dream that involved the Blessed Mother. In 1844, reports the Catholic Herald in the UK, Dickens "underwent a religious experience (rarely written about), which he described vividly in a letter. 'Let me tell you,' he wrote from Venice, 'of a curious dream I had, last Monday night; and of the fragments of reality I can collect; which helped to make it up … In an indistinct place, which was quite sublime in its indistinctness, I was visited by a Spirit. I could not make out the face, nor do I recollect that I desired to do so. It wore a blue drapery, as the Madonna might in a picture by Raphael; and bore no resemblance to anyone I have known except in stature… It was so full of compassion and sorrow for me… that it cut me to the heart."
Mary?
Dickens seemed to indicate so.
After that article ran, a viewer made the interesting observation that it may not have been Dickens' only mystical experience.
Indeed, there are elements of A Christmas Carol that parallel near-death experiences: Scrooge first encountering a vision of his deceased business partner (as those in near-death experiences often first see a departed loved one or friend), then the visit by the three spirits who review his life with him, as so many of those experiencing clinical death and a glimpse of the afterworld say they were taken -- by angels, or Christ -- on a review of their lives (past, present, and future) and shown how they affected everyone.
The accounts of near-death episodes -- much more recent, of course -- continue to roll in.
Like Scrooge, those who return are transformed and now want to dedicate themselves not to making money or anything selfish but helping (and serving) others, making them feel good (recall how Scrooge was shown how miserable or happy he could make others?).
"People need to know that there is life after trauma," says Heather Ellis of New Zealand, who was "dead" from an aneurism for four minutes (clinically) back in 1999 in the city of Christchurch. "There is life after death and you will never ever be given anything you cannot handle. I could have gone if I so chose," she adds. "I chose to come back to help others." Always in life, learned Heather: "if a door is shut on you, there will be another one that will open up for you."
It is interesting that near-deathers often also come back with comments on all of mankind.
Our society is not living, they often say, according to God's Plan.
And as a result, there are coming events. There is a coming transformation.
That too mimics Marian visions. Says Milo Heerkens of the Netherlands: "I had a near-death experience at the age of eight but I didn’t realize its significance until many years later. The experience occurred while I was in a coma as a long-time sufferer of kidney disease, in the year 1984. My physical and spiritual growth was slow until at age 29 I finally realized that what I had experienced as a young child so many years before was in fact a near-death experience. Since then, I have found myself on a quest for knowledge on both the physical and spiritual planes.
"I have learned that human life is of immense value, in no way measurable by money. Material possessions don’t interest me. They’re fun to have, but after we die, the only things we can take with us are knowledge and memories.
"In my experience, I literally went out of my body on a trip through time. I saw and encountered things from my past as well as the future. Some of the things that were in the future at the time of my near-death experience haven’t yet come to pass, while others happened years ago. The journey through time was so unreal that it was mind blowing. I was guided by my deceased grandfather, who told me everything about life now and what the future will bring.
"I saw that society will experience an enormous downward spiral, and many will suffer. Those who don’t want to listen will be removed from the earth. I sailed through time, saw the earth from above, and received knowledge that is still hard to understand."
[Note: During his vision of the heavenly woman, Dickens added: "I said, sobbing, ‘Oh! give me some token that you have really visited me!… Answer me one… question!’ I said, in an agony of entreaty lest it should leave me. ‘What is the True religion?’ As it paused a moment without replying, I said - Good God in such an agony of haste, lest it should go away! - ’You think, as I do, that the Form of religion does not so greatly matter, if we try to do good? or,’ I said, observing that it still hesitated, and was moved with the greatest compassion for me, ‘perhaps the Roman Catholic is the best? perhaps it makes one think of God oftener, and believe in Him more steadily?’ 'For you,’ said the Spirit, full of such heavenly tenderness for me, that I felt as if my heart would break; ‘for you it is the best!’ Then I awoke, with the tears running down my face, and myself in exactly the condition of the dream. It was just dawn.”]
Love the Mystery!
I would say do be quite careful with NDEs or Out-of-Body experiences. I am a Christian and a Universalist but I don't necessarily believe in every NDEs or OBEs. There was a time I was very interested in those experiences so a rabbit hole was dug and man, there are simply too many stories with too vast of details that either don't line up or simply contradicts not just each other but also scriptural expressions. You'll probably know what I mean if you've watched many many of those accounts and videos. People tell different stories.
I would however hold onto a few criteria to measure how legit an experience may be- There tends to be a common set of phenomenon many experiences share like beatific vision of Christ and his eyes, of Heaven, of Color, of other people, as well as indescribable peace, love, etc. There also are some commonly shared descriptions regarding that one feels that heaven is reality and the world we live in is simply a shadow of it, or how every texture is seen in like a sort of 8K ultra HD vision, or more than once there seems to be a sort of "screen" displayed in front of you to see either your life moments or some message the Lord wants to give. Most of the things shared in common usually (from what I've seen) come from more NDEs than OBEs.
Some of the really Hellish experiences more often than not from what I've seen come from OBEs than NDEs, and we need to be really careful with those experiences because they vary so greatly in detail. Not only that, the nature of OBE seems to be more (imo) "fantasized" and perhaps demonic than the nature of NDE (although this is possibly biased). I'm not saying they're illegitimate from the person's perspective but I hold them to be illegitimate from an objective perspective simply due to a lack of connection to scripture and to each other. And some of those experiences happen during sleep from the cases I've seen. Some of them also come from possibly a history of drug use (how it affects us spiritually idk, it's a mystery but I don't wanna find out).
I would say at last, if you're not sure about this or that, or you're overwhelmed as to what to believe when you've watched too many of those videos about NDEs or OBEs, always trust and rely on scripture and your moral & logical intuitions.
I often wonder how much DMT affects these experiences. They seem to be a reflection of their personal understanding.
Not always. There have been atheists report having these experiences, and they were completely surprised, then a lot of them become Christian.
@@doriesse824 one time an atheist told me about their near death experience. They said it was black, nothing was there, but the scary part was that they could remember the black nothing.
imo they affect greatly to certain individuals. I've heard many Hell versions of out-of-body experiences (not NDEs, and I tend to regard them as very different things) and some of those examples come from people with a history of drug abuse. The stories differ so much to a point they simply do not line up at all nor do they line up even with scripture. Those descriptions were beyond horrific. That's where I draw the line like- nope, I ain't buying it. Not because that I don't believe they saw what they saw but there are too much mystery regarding a drug-warped brain and what it can produce or how our spirit can be affected by these things and how they reflect in the spiritual realm. They might've had legit experiences but not every experience is legit imo. At that point I don't trust anything outside of a few examples and scripture.
What about Hell NDEs?
They aren’t permanent, as soon as they cry out to God they are rescued
@@jonnyw82 so they should cry out to God? what if they don't know about God of the Bible and never heard of him? Who should they cry out to? Doesn't the Bible say that only through Jesus one can come to the Father..
@Alloyka107 Most people know about God even if they don’t know about Jesus. Those who call on God are often rescued as well. In fact, even just expressing remorse for one’s sins will often bring about God’s mercy. There is a story of a Hindu doctor who ended up in hell, and after realizing that he had lived a loveless life and begging forgiveness from God, he is rescued by Michael and Rafael. He is then taken to meet Jesus, who introduces himself as the Savior.
@@j.robertson9025 "most" people doesn't mean all... could you send me that story?
@@Alloyka107 everyone has the natural longing for God. Every "Hell" NDE (as skeptical as I am even as a Christian) points to technically the same thing- when they see the horrors they naturally cry out for the opposite, and that is God. It's not like they see hell and think hell is all that is, because God made us for himself, our natural longing for God is always there- especially in the face of horrors.
However do be careful with all these NDEs (both positive and negative) because they all vary greatly in detail even though a lot of them share basic similarities in certain things. It gets to a point where you would not know what to believe, and for me I simply just fall back to scripture at that point, because too much information. I am a Christian universalist, but I hold my waters when it comes to NDEs or out of body experiences because there are simply too many stories with too greatly stretched details that sometimes don't line up.
But what about every criminal in American and world history?
They will be purified and it won’t be fun but i believe all are eventually redeemed