Scientific American - Charles Q. Choi - September 12, 2011
Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific Explanations
Near-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features. The details of what happens in near-death experiences are now known widely—a sense of being dead, a feeling that one's "soul" has left the body, a voyage toward a bright light, and a departure to another reality where love and bliss are all-encompassing.
Approximately 3 percent of the U.S. population says they have had a near-death experience, according to a Gallup poll. Near-death experiences are reported across cultures, with written records of them dating back to ancient Greece. Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death—one study of 58 patients who recounted near-death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.
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Associated Baptist Press - 9/8/11 by Zachary Bailes
Dear Albert Mohler:
We hope this finds you well. First, we offer our congratulations for making it on the Colbert Show. That’s a fantastic show, and we tune in often. Second, we offer gratitude for fighting for people to believe in us. It’s an incredibly sweet act -- our thank-you note is in the mail.
While we appreciate your remarkable interest in us, we think you’ve gotten us wrong. For example, you said, “When Adam sinned, he sinned for us, and it’s that very sinfulness that sets up our understanding of our need for a savior…. Without Adam, the work of Christ makes no sense whatsoever.”
While we understand your evangelical piety and unequivocal love for Jesus, we didn’t sin for you. We also didn’t sin in order to make relevant the work of someone born thousands of years after us.
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Bachmann Dodges Question On Whether God Uses Weather To Send Messages (VIDEO)
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