tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post8286259269520023990..comments2024-03-11T07:53:25.838-04:00Comments on Spirituality, Dreams and Prophecy: Divine Revelations of Heaven and HellDoug Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11071107950046910342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post-70455460763095391272014-10-29T18:24:18.154-04:002014-10-29T18:24:18.154-04:00Thank you Teli, I will read them in detail. From a...Thank you Teli, I will read them in detail. From a Christian perspective, there tend to be two main bodies of thought: (1) after death, we will be judged and go to heaven or hell, or (2) we will all fall asleep and await a judgment at a future date. What Swedenborg states is both are true - some are judged immediately, and others have to wait for a while until a final judgment. These final judgments occur in the spiritual world. Swedenborg's explanations of the afterlife are comprehensive, mainly covered in his work "Heaven and Hell." For the last judgment, he explains that more fully in his work "The Final Judgment." While Protestants look down on the Catholic view of purgatory (as did Swedenborg), he does describe an intermediate state between heaven and hell that is similar (but different) than purgatory.<br /><br />From a Biblical point of view, descriptions of the afterlife are sparse, and this was because the Jews were not ready to receive spiritual teachings. But yes, one will find experiences of NDEs that may not fit our preconceived view. This is because the truth that the mind can receive has to be adapted to the receiver. Many who have done good and never knew Jesus will have an opportunity to learn of him. In NDEs reincarnation comes up every so often, and Swedenborg stated that there are spirits who firmly believe this - this is because in the other life, memories and thoughts are shared, and one could readily think that another person's memory is one's own leading to the confusion. I see shared collective memory as a more probably explanation for these cases than reincarnation.<br /><br />With NDEs, those who survive often have trouble putting them into words, and are but a glimpse. So when they translate it into words that may be the other source of disagreement rather than the experience itself. Long before this phenomenon became well known Swedenborg described in much more comprehensive detail in the 18th century.Doug Webberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11071107950046910342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030257666913290314.post-58259126118347921782014-10-29T15:44:20.719-04:002014-10-29T15:44:20.719-04:00I would advice the reading of these 2 critical ana...I would advice the reading of these 2 critical analyses about NDE and visions of heaven an hell, from a Christian point of view:<br /><br /><a href="http://reflexionsjesus.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/the-near-death-experiences-nde/" rel="nofollow">http://reflexionsjesus.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/the-near-death-experiences-nde/</a><br /><a href="http://reflexionsjesus.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/the-christian-eschatological-visions-put-into-question/" rel="nofollow">http://reflexionsjesus.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/the-christian-eschatological-visions-put-into-question/</a><br />Lite Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466075596754325116noreply@blogger.com