Feb
04
2010
Tim Challies and Evidence of the Afterlife
Tim Challies continues to plow ahead through his 0ne-year project of reviewing every NYT bestseller at his 10 Million Words blog. One of his latest reviews is of Jeffrey Long's Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. Here's how he concludes the review:
Of course as a Christian I have to grapple with asking exactly what a NDE [Near Death Experience] is. It seems irrefutable that many people, when gravely injured and often when clinically dead, do experience something. The accounts are too common and too consistent to ignore entirely. So we see that such experiences do appear to exist and that they seem to lead directly away from what the Bible teaches us. What recourse do we have, then, but to state with some confidence that these experiences are somehow a trick of Satan? And would it not be just like the Enemy to use such an experience to convince people of their own divinity–to lead people as far from what is true as is possible? I am persuaded that NDEs do exist but that they exist to deceive, to provide false comfort, to provide false hope, to enslave, to trap, to destroy.
I think Amazon already knows this. Evidence of the Afterlife is filed under Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult. Well done.
Verdict: Read it if you want to see how Satan continues to ensnare and enslave.
Enjoy the whole review. And be sure to check out others at 10 Million Words for help in understanding a bit more about America through our country's bestsellers.