Phillip, hyow do u know her uncle isnt now an angel? We dont know enough about the afterlife since Jesus didnt share everything with us about it, but your right that nde's like this arent to show one religion over another, but to show that there is life after physical death which shows materialism and naturalism to be the odd men out. From what I read Pam Reynolds had always been a christian. Maybe im wrong but that was my perception from the articles I read.
as far as an unbeliever not going to heaven, your right they arent allowed there, but who is to say that they cant be shown a glimpse of it, Ian Mccormick is another such nde. He was an atheist who was in search of the perfect wave and would travel the world looking for it, but on this instance he was bitten 5 times by a box jelly fish and was actually declared dead while he was having his nde. He was in hell and also experienced a glimpse of heaven. He came back and became a pastor.
Why would satan or one of his demons save trick IAN into becoming a christian. If you watch the video you will notice the difference Ian felt when he was in hell and when he was in the presence of the light talking to God. Who else but God have caused him to abandon his atheism and become a christian?
His body was about to be shoved into the hospital morgue when he came back into his body.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-ezZ9hkD8
Gary Habermas has spent many years documenting different nde's.
Heres a great article by him
PARADIGM SHIFT:
A CHALLENGE TO NATURALISM
http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/Bi ... -shift.htm
Lots of great information with compelling evidence for life after physical death.
Here is an expert from the research article.
In an article in The Humanist, Beloff argued that the evidence is strong enough that even humanists should admit survival after death and try to interpret it in naturalistic terms. Perhaps this signals a new shift in attitude on this subject. Beloff stated that the evidence points to a "dualistic world where mind or spirit has an existence separate from the world of material things." He admitted that this could "present a challenge to Humanism as profound in its own way as that which Darwinian Evolution did to Christianity a century ago." Yet, he added, naturalists "cannot afford to close our minds . . . to the possibility of some kind of survival."36
In an American Psychological Association convention a panel discussed the nature of near-death experiences. Only one of the panelists, UCLA psychologist Ronald Siegel, held that those could be explained totally by natural means. However, when challenged later by cardiologist Michael Sabom to explain his then unpublished corroborative accounts by naturalistic means, Siegel responded that he was unable to do so. The other panel members agreed that neardeath research points to or provides evidence for a spiritual realm and life after death.37
Some may object that subjective phenomena such as hallucinations or perhaps a combination of physiological and psychological causes are able to account for such data. Whereas some examples can certainly be explained in such a manner, these attempts cannot provide an adequate account of those cases which are accompanied by objective corroboration, since they indicate that something has actually been perceived beyond merely subjective categories.
A common question is whether such experiences can be explained by brain activity. That is, could not the physical (or material) body be viewed as the cause? However, the reported cases where brain activity was absent provide a major critique of that view. Also the examples of multiple near-death experiences in which an individual reports veridical information concerning the death of another who had "gone on before" provide possible data regarding the deceased individual which is not accounted for by the reporter's brain function.
The suggestion that the latter information could have been received by telepathy from a living person (or by some similar means) does not account for the conviction of well-being and the peaceful desire to be with the deceased, since such mental information would presumably include the fact of the death and a negative emotional
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36. John Beloff, as cited in David Winter, Hereafter What Happens after Death7 (Wheaton, IL Harold Shaw Publishers, 1972), pp. 33-34.
37. Near-Death Experiences Defy Single Explanation," Brain-Mind Bulletin, September 14,1981, pp. 1,3.
