Post by Cindy on Mar 18, 2016 10:00:27 GMT -5
I've finally begun to see yet another reason why God hates it when people tell lies about Heaven. In the past, I always thought it was wrong, because it's always wrong to say something is true that the Bible says is false, but other then giving folks some wrong ideas about Heaven, I really didn't think it would hurt anyone. Boy was I wrong!!! I've been reading a book that's a true story about how a woman survived a terrible medical ordeal after giving birth to her 5th child. It's called "The Long Awakening, A Memoir", by L. O'Connor. While she most certainly died - any number of times during her ordeal, she never had any of the visions so many others do, and then write about. After spending many months in the hospital, when she was finally released to go home, this haunted her like nothing else. Her family, friends, and everyone at her church and many other churches had prayed for a miracle and when she lived, they, as well as her doctors, knew without a doubt that the Lord had answered their prayers. She was a living miracle to them all. But she didn't feel like a miracle. Oh, she was very grateful that she'd lived, but there was a huge problem. Like most folks do, when they'd see her, after crying and saying how glad they were the Lord had saved her, the first thing they wanted to know was what it was like - what had she seen. How do you answer that when you, a person who loved the Lord with all your heart, saw nothing??? Where was God in all the horror she'd been through? Reading this precious woman's story of how she questioned herself, God and everything she knew, simply because she hadn't had any visions during her time of death, really broke my heart. I immediately saw the harm books like The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven do to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
What had seemed offensive to me before , now makes me really angry. I've been asked by some who have had visions similar to some of these books, why they can't be true, knowing the person was really wanting me to validate their experience. But I couldn't do it before and most certainly can't now, even though I too have had similar experiences of seeing and being in a tunnel, seeing the light, etc. But I knew it was just an experience. Yes, it felt real. Yes, I could see everyone that was around my bed, even though I was unconscious, and I could hear everything that was said. Yet that doesn't make the tunnel or light or anything else that happened or rather, seemed to happen, to me or anyone else real. It doesn't mean that we've seen heaven. It simply means we had an experience caused by trauma to our bodies and minds, and that's all. the fact that we saw and heard what was going on around us, and that part proves true, actually proves nothing about what happened to us. Whether it was a good experience or a bad one, or in between, changes nothing. Satan is a deceiver, period. Our hearts and minds, meaning our emotions, and our thoughts, are deceitful and corrupt, beyond cure! We're told over and over not to trust them! God's Word quite simply cannot be questioned. The only one who questions it is Satan, so to do so is to start down a very slippery slope. We cannot pick and choose which parts of the Bible we will believe and which parts we won't. We either believe every single word, or we don't believe it at all. And if we are saved, how can we not believe it? To do so, risks our souls, for it means our salvation may not be real.
Please, be very, very careful before you decide that something you felt, saw, or experienced is true and real, when God's Word says it isn't. If nothing else, be willing to set it aside until you can learn more of what God's Word says about it. Be willing to accept God's Word as Truth, for if you're not willing to do that, as I said, you're really setting yourself up to question your salvation as being real as well, because if God's Word isn't 100% trustworthy and true like it says, then neither is your salvation. There are any number of articles here that explain what the Bible says about this, including the one I linked to above. Please read them with an open mind and heart.
What had seemed offensive to me before , now makes me really angry. I've been asked by some who have had visions similar to some of these books, why they can't be true, knowing the person was really wanting me to validate their experience. But I couldn't do it before and most certainly can't now, even though I too have had similar experiences of seeing and being in a tunnel, seeing the light, etc. But I knew it was just an experience. Yes, it felt real. Yes, I could see everyone that was around my bed, even though I was unconscious, and I could hear everything that was said. Yet that doesn't make the tunnel or light or anything else that happened or rather, seemed to happen, to me or anyone else real. It doesn't mean that we've seen heaven. It simply means we had an experience caused by trauma to our bodies and minds, and that's all. the fact that we saw and heard what was going on around us, and that part proves true, actually proves nothing about what happened to us. Whether it was a good experience or a bad one, or in between, changes nothing. Satan is a deceiver, period. Our hearts and minds, meaning our emotions, and our thoughts, are deceitful and corrupt, beyond cure! We're told over and over not to trust them! God's Word quite simply cannot be questioned. The only one who questions it is Satan, so to do so is to start down a very slippery slope. We cannot pick and choose which parts of the Bible we will believe and which parts we won't. We either believe every single word, or we don't believe it at all. And if we are saved, how can we not believe it? To do so, risks our souls, for it means our salvation may not be real.
Please, be very, very careful before you decide that something you felt, saw, or experienced is true and real, when God's Word says it isn't. If nothing else, be willing to set it aside until you can learn more of what God's Word says about it. Be willing to accept God's Word as Truth, for if you're not willing to do that, as I said, you're really setting yourself up to question your salvation as being real as well, because if God's Word isn't 100% trustworthy and true like it says, then neither is your salvation. There are any number of articles here that explain what the Bible says about this, including the one I linked to above. Please read them with an open mind and heart.
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