Life After Death
A man is being pronounced dead. His blood pressure is non-existent, his heart has failed, he flat lines. The doctor closes his eyes, for what appears to be the last time. Actually the man has embarked on a journey. Up the ceiling, down a tunnel and into a blinding light. To the naked eye that man is dead and gone, but to the the third eye [the minds eye] he is just resting before his resurrection.
Resurrection. One of the forms of life after death.
Resurrection : is defined as an act of rising from the dead, from resurgere to rise from the dead,
[from Latin] to rise again, from the dead, from Latin, to rise again, from re-+ surgere to rise
1]if capitalized: the rising of the Christ from the dead [b] often capitalized: the rising again to life of all the human dead before the final judgment
[c] the state of one risen from the dead.
3] Christian Science: a spiritualization of thought: material belief that yields of thought: material belief that yields to spiritual understanding.
As a Christian, of course I believe in the resurrection of Christ, but as an individual I also believe in the resurrection of the spiritual being. Just think for a minute, how many people die in their sleep never to be reported because they were resurrected. I think it has happened to me and many others. Maybe I’ll just get the doctors to diagnosed me with Sleep Apnea and sweep in under the preverbal rug.
In 1990 a movie by the name of Flatliners chilled audiences with scenes of soon to be mega film stars jumping back and fourth between life and death. Playing the role of medical students, they some how managed to figure out a way to get to the other side by being legally dead for a matter of minutes under the close observation of their classmates. While dead they realized the error of their ways and woke to try to fix the things they had done wrong as a child. Though these deliberate near death experiences were planed and the resurrection was a term for undergoing the procedure, the moral of the story turned out to be that death in any form is a powerful adversary.
Aaliyah or Dana Haughton prophesied her own death, by way of movies and music with titles “Rock the Boat” and “The Queen of The Damned” closing out their reign as hip-hop stars. Did she sense their impending deaths? Was her last projects a form of telling? We may never get the answers to these questions and many others we may have for the dearly departed. However baffled she left us one thing we do know is they have achieved a certain level of immortality by remembrance.
Immortality along with all other aspects of life after death has a tendency to be picked apart by the scientific community. Unlike resurrection, immortality is the absence of death. To be more precise it is the quality or state of being immortal.
Immortal: [a] Unending existence [b] lasting fame.
To take the word literally would mean to believe in things that never die. Like G_d, because even Yesus died for three days before rising from the dead. To believe the latter definition of the word means any one of us regular folk can aim for the “immortal”. So, the question here is, is lasting fame a form of life? If so, we live in a world of immortals.
In conclusion, there are far too many forms of supposed encounters with life after death for us to totally disregard the option that this spiritual phenomena could quite possibly be beyond the realm of scientific explanation. To think that a scientist could explain the afterlife is a fallacy of authority. For even they fall short of the knowledge needed to accurately delve into arena of the undead.
Comments are closed