Friday, August 5, 2022

Does Life Exist After Death?

 

 

Over 20 years ago I bought a book called “Life after Life” by Dr Raymond Moody, an American philosopher, psychiatrist and physician where he described his study on people who have died and experienced what’s on the other side after they were revived.

The testimonies of those who have died and came back again all have similar descriptions of 'death' and 'beyond' – their experiences were all so strikingly alike, so vivid and so overwhelmingly similar despite their differences in cultural, belief systems and religious background.

They all saw what was in the other dimension not seen when they were physically alive here in this world.  What they saw and experienced after death changed the ways they lived after that. Their views on life and death, and the spiritual entities they saw after they experienced Near Death Experience were so uncannily similar where they all saw a bright light and travelled through a very dark tunnel and saw a very bright light at the end, and beautiful field at the end of the tunnel

Later after Dr Moody wrote his book, numerous studies by other authors on those who have also died and came back also described exactly the same experiences.  

https://www.readersdigest.com.au/true-stories-lifestyle/thought-provoking/11-people-back-to-life-reveal-what-they-saw-other-side

I have written quite a bit on the mystery of life, attempting to answer what exactly is it residing inside a living body, and I know for sure a soul does exist, and only the physical body dies, but the soul lives on for all eternity after flying away on death of the body.

Even Jesus has a soul which is clearly written as “my spirit” moments before He died, and He gave up “His Ghost” (soul and spirit) after that – here:

“And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend “my spirit”: and having said thus, he gave up “the ghost” (Luke 23:46).

Read further my thoughts on this:   

“The Body and the Soul” here all the way down to “Does a soul exist” here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=soul


I think one of the best pieces of evidence we have that soul exists in all of us is given by Jusus Christ Himself who illustrated this in His parable of the rich man and Lazarus who had nothing in life when he was in this world.

 

Jesus mentioned when both of them eventually died, their souls were brought to different places. Here’s what the verses say:

 

 19 There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’’

 

(Luke 16:19-31)

 

Many, including the church, preachers and church pastors missed out this hint of the existence of a soul. Not just that alone, the soul remembers all it had when they were in this world just like the rich man who was asked by Abraham to remember all the good things he enjoyed when he was in a bodily physical form when he was in this physical world (Luke 16:25)

Jesus couldn’t be not telling the truth as a Son of God from heaven

 

See also my own explanation on “The Persistence of Memories After Death here:

 

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-persistence-of-memories-after-death.html

 

The blogger would greatly appreciate readers views on this

A friend from the UK yesterday (20 October, 2022) sent me these two links on the existence of life after life, and also if ghosts exist. Makes interesting reading: Have a look at the views of others too:



https://www.google.com.my/search?q=ghosts+are+they+real&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-my&client=safari














1 comment:

Charlotte said...

Dr Lim

Where did you get all that information about the stars, evolution, food, disease and medicine, about life, forensic science, about ghosts and the soul, where we shall land up on death. Simply amazing!

Charlotte

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