Christians: What is your opinion of near-death experiences in general?

I've never personally experienced an NDR, but let me share an experience of someone who did:

I was a toddler, perhaps 18 months to 2 years old, but I could have been a little bit older. It must be about the earliest childhood recollection I have. My twin sister and I were in our cot, in a sunny, bare, south-facing little bedroom, mother having put us in there whilst she had an afternoon nap. I remember standing in one corner of the cot and my twin standing in the opposite corner. I have no recollection of falling out of the cot onto the hard linoleum floor, but that is what I have been told happened, by mother. I had broken my collar-bone and was taken to hospital.

The out-of-body experience was like seeing a snap-shot photograph. I was elevated high above the Earth, a great distance from it, because I could see the entire planet beneath – not just a portion of it. I was in outer-space, the blackness of the universe all around, Earth being just as we now see with satellite photos in vivid colour. Of course, back then, there were no such satellite photos; not even a television in our house! But the difference with my photographic remembrance was that there was a very thin, silvery cord coming up from the Earth, linked to myself. From my point of view, it was curved to my left hand side in its descent (or ascent). Then there was a sensation of sudden return to Earth. I don’t have any mental image of that in my mind, however. It just ended up being a realization that I was instantly returned to Earth. It was a dream-like experience but not in any way frightening. It had been a very peaceful, serene experience. I never had nightmares about it or any kind of anxiety. It struck me as a wonderful sight to behold.

My twin sister witnessed the events leading to my concussion (we were awake, sitting on the edge of the cot and she sneezed), mother quickly running in and being at the hospital throughout treatment. She never spoke of it in any detail. In those days (around 1951/52) she would not have been allowed in to the treatment room. She never spoke of my having died, clinically, so I never associated my experience with death.

As a child, I had no idea of what rational explanation was. I simply accepted the experience as it came to me, but I always wondered what that silver cord was. I never discussed the experience with anyone. Why would I? It wasn’t until I became a teenager / adult that the memory of that experience came back to me in terms of thinking rationally about it. As it went against all the religious beliefs of my parents, I never even heard any of my family speak of such a possibility. We were taught not to expect going to heaven. Possibly that is what caused me to puzzle over the experience in later life, because it just didn’t fit in.

The only explanation I can come up with is that I died clinically after that fall, but then I was resuscitated. I hardly thought about it for many years. It was only ever a background memory of a dream-like experience that would very rarely surface. It had no bearing on my day-to-day life whatever.

Only with hindsight have my spiritual views changed and I can now see a connection, religiously. I now believe that it wasn’t my time to die, as a toddler, but that I had been heaven-bound back then, until I was resuscitated. Now I think I understand the Bible at Ecclesiastes 12:6- “Remember [God] before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken.”

I was that twin sister, so I can vouch for the authenticity and accuracy of the account. NDR's happen.

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My opinion is that they are a grace from God and each person who has a near-death experience is receiving a message from God that is custom made for His Holy and unfathomable plans.

Our brains are atomic molecular structures. When we understand how those structures react to the subatomic quantum world, the better we will know ourselves and the hidden realities we can only now barely imagine. When it comes to discovering new knowledge there will always be new frontiers ahead.

I don't think it antithetical that persons with an immortal soul would also experience the continuation of consciousness and perceptual ability after clinical death.

Sometimes mis-labeled as "after-death," leading to incorrect assumptions about the "other world."

Some true, some not true. You should go online and do a search on Howard Storm. Read his story. He claims to have died and gone to hell. That account is, I believe, true. I have never had a NDE but I have had some of the same dealings with God that he had.

They happen. Emergency room physicians know this and I accept their testimony regarding those who have gone through such...

By the way, death can be induced chemically in perfectly healthy people... (LOL).

Skeptics will always exist, but one person's skepticism and evidence does not change the events of others or what they have experienced.

I believe God allows some people to see Heaven and Hell through NDE to warn others. But not everyone sees it for whatever reason. Some people dont remember what they see also.

Given that they're completely anecdotal and similar experiences can be induced chemically in healthy people, they're completely worthless as evidence for any sort of afterlife.