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ESPAÑOL: ¿Las Experiencias Cercanas a la Muerte prueban la existencia del espíritu humano?
In a recent video, former atheist and now Christian apologist Lee Strobel provided evidences for the existence of the human spirit.
The Bible teaches that we are made up of a spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). At the death of our physical body, our spirit lives on. This is vividly portrayed in the Jesus’ story about the rich man and Lazarus found in Luke 16:19-31.
After death Lazarus’ spirit ended up in Abraham’s bosom and the rich man in Hades, a place of suffering.
Both could converse with others and though they didn’t have physical eyes, they could still see.
Though some consider this religious fantasy, Strobel points to Near Death Experiences also called NDEs as evidence of our spirit’s existence.
Many NDEs defy explanation as people reported their spirit leaving their body when they died. As their spirit soared upwards, they saw things that could only be seen if they were looking down on them.
Strobel cited two people who died in hospital and were later revived. One saw a runner on the hospital roof and another a red sticker on the top side of a ceiling fan blade. Both of these were confirmed.
The totally blind also experience NDEs when they die and see similar things to people who had full sight. Then oddly, when they returned to their body, they could no longer see.
A study conducted by psychologists Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper analyzed NDEs of 31 blind people. Many were blind from birth.
According to Dutch Cardiologist, Dr. Pim van Lommel, who cited the study in his book Consciousness beyond Life: The Science of the Near-death Experience, one intriguing case involved Vicki. She has been totally blind since birth due to irreversible optic nerve damage.
She was critically hurt in a car accident and died during an emergency operation. After she was revived, Vicki said that her spirit left her body and she was able to see what was happening to her.
She said:
“And it was frightening because I’m not accustomed to see things visually, because I never had before!. And initially it was pretty scary! And then I finally recognized my wedding ring and my hair. And then I thought: is that my body down there? Am I dead or what? They kept saying, “We can’t bring her back, we can’t bring her back!” And they were trying to frantically work on this thing that I discovered was my body and I felt very detached from it and sort of “so what?” And I was thinking, what are these people getting so upset about?”
She then described her spirit floating above the hospital and she saw the full grounds. She even saw the crumpled remains of the family’s Volkswagen van.
Val Lommel said her detailed descriptions defied explanation, since it was physically impossible for her to see because of atrophied eyeballs and optic nerves.
He wrote that this, ”raises significant questions… How does she do this? This is impossible according to current medical knowledge.”
It’s impossible to explain naturally.
But it is completely explainable with the Bible’s depiction of the spiritual world and existence of the human spirit.
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