Faith on Alexander News Network (ANN): Trump's War 2.0 for America

[Faith]

"Thank God he’s more merciful than we deserve."

Please take Vonu's response seriously: THAT is the Reality! Your "we don't deserve mercy" statement is straight out of the early Christian church distortion- and brainwashing campaign from the fourth century trying to convince people of such falsehoods as "we are all undeserving sinners who will go to eternal Hell" if we don’t believe and do exactly like the church tells us to, and we have "just one shot at getting it right" so we had better take no chances and just "obey".

Everyone who has been on "The Other Side" knows that that is utter nonsense and just an evil church's control trip!

[An Ominous]

I'll stick with the historic Christian faith over some testimonies about out of body experiences or near death experiences, which I believe are strongly influenced by the hopes and desires of those experiencing them. My NDE came before my first birthday, so I have no recollection of it.

Nevertheless, I root for John 3:17 to be the most important verse of John 3:16-18. My desire is not universalism, i.e. a belief that all or many religions are equally valid, but rather that God applies the atonement of Jesus's sacrifice with great liberality.

There is a good discussion of how one of my favorite authors thought about the subject in the answer portion of https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/3701/how-does-emeths-presence-in-aslans-country-in-the-last-battle-fit-in-with-the

Also, I expect that a positive OBE or NDE is a good sign, since it shows some positive things about the orientation of the person blessed by the experience.

[Faith]

The Narnia books are fun to read, but just more religious ideology. Not Reality.

[Faith]

Nearly-dying is not at all the same as an NDE.