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I hate to bring rain on my fellow Christians’ parade but ‘After Death’ is really not about AFTER death experiences but Near Death Experiences or NDEs–experiences by those who almost died but for some unexplainable reason “came back to life” or survived, which is undoubtedly an amazing thing that can happen to anyone. And yes “going to heaven” after they have supposedly died has been shown as an experience not exclusive to Christians. Thus Christians (and Christian moviemakers) cannot make the claim that it is only Christians who have pleasant NDEs as they supposedly went to heaven after they died for that would be misleading.

Here’s one person who has watched a Netflix documentary on NDEs have to say:

I just watched the series Surviving Death on Netflix.

A lot of people who appeared aren’t born again Christians or even Christian at all. In fact some of them were hardcore atheists before their experience. But they all had positive experiences which profoundly affected and changed them, made them better people who lost their fear

I grew up in the evangelical tradition and was taught that all non-believers (and even most believers who are not “born again”) will go straight to hell after death, while only born again believers go to paradise and have happy experiences.

But the stories told in this series flatly contradict that claim. It seems what you believe here isn’t important at all and that most people have profoundly positive NDEs regardless of their religious faith or lack of it. These experiences don’t “lead people to Christ” either, people who have great NDEs don’t suddenly get the conviction to convert to Christianity.

How to explain this given what the Christian faith traditionally teaches about death? (And please don’t say all the positive non-Christian NDEs are just “demonic deceptions”, if that were really the case then nothing in life can be trusted.)*

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*https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/om2f0u/nonchristian_near_death_experiences/?rdt=42805