It's a part of loving yourself. This is what the problem is, people hating themselves. People not accepting the wonderful gift they are.

Greek word for faith is pistis. Pistis in Ancient Greek and in New Testament times meant trust in someone due to evidence. Not in absence of evidence. Jesus even taught not to have blind faith in him (John 14:11) “believe on the accounts of the works themselves.”

My son was diagnosed at 22 yrs old. It was a massive relief! I knew something was different with him, but I did not know what, it all made sense when I read up about it and as he was seen by a Psychiatrist, who gave him taught him strategies how to handle situations. He is married now, his wife is very kind and handles him very kindly. He still struggles with situations and is inclined to move away from bigger groups of people. He works and the people he works with are acceptive of him! We feel blessed that this is so. He loves games and he paints warhammer figurines, very nicely!

This is a fair critique. I probably should've chosen my words more wisely. Certainly I didn't intend to imply that a girl's appearance is all she is. My intention was to get an idea re: whether she liked herself when she looked in the mirror. I think that's important for everyone - girls and boys alike. Thanks for listening and sharing your thoughts here! - Eric (the host)

Thank you for being open to my feedback. Better minds than mine have pointed out that the empasis that our culture places on women's looks, their bodies and faces, could be part of the "gender dysphoria" that many young girls are claiming to experience. Young girls who are being fed through media/social media the ideas that looks are the only thing that matters for a woman, might be suggestible to gender ideology because they might be the kind of young woman (like me and so many others that I know) who prefers sports, or gardening, or the arts, or intellectual pursuits, without any focus on "looks", and this is influencing them to question if they are even female at all if they have zero interest in the stereotypical things that girls and women are "supposed" to like. Many detransitioners have spoken to this.

She’s absolutely a force to be reckoned with!

Hey there, good questions. I've been looking into ndes myself as of late as a Christian, and I definitely see the points your making. But it's important to note that the devil is very good, I'd say, at disguising himself as an angel of light. Deceiving people into thinking their in a place of paradise, when their actually surrounded by a dome of illusion, as some other nder's call it where they see others in hell deceived while going through their own hell nde. When people come back from either a heaven or hell nde, and deny Christ, that doesn't mean that He's not up there. That just means that their not ready to accept the truth of the Christian worldview. Bear with me here for a minute and hear me out. Roughly 1 quarter of ndes are hellish, and so when people say that the being of light and love lets everyone into heaven/paradise, whether their religious or not, that makes me suspicious of their experience right off the bat. As we know that's not the case just based alone on the fact that there are so many hellish ndes. So when someone says that they see a being of light that they think isn't Jesus and says that reincarnation is true and everyone makes it in, that pretty much shows me that they were just deceived in a false heaven/paradise experience, where they were actually in hell with demons trying to put on a charade. That would make sense if the Christian worldview is true, with demons/evil spirits in the spiritual realm that hate humans who are created in the image and likeness of God. Desperately trying to deceive us into thinking that everyone goes to heaven, so why even put your trust in Christ? The bible says in romans 2:4 NLT; Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that His kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? And luke 6:35 NASB; ...He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil people. It's no wonder the God of the Bible lets unbelievers see what they are missing, giving them a taste of what He wants them to have, if they would just turn to Him. But He also shows others hell, so that all of us here on earth hearing these stories know that He is also serious about sin, and there must be punishment. Either we're paying the price for straightup disobeying Him, or we're accepting Jesus' righteousness and what He did for us on the cross. If everyone saw hell when they had their nde, I feel like they'd be much less likely to turn to God. But at the same time, knowing that hell is a very real place, if God allowed everyone to see heaven, with very few people seeing hell, then we would all think that theres no punishment for sin, so the creator must be cruel for allowing rape and murder to go unpunished. God has balanced it out just right so we hear testimonies of both heaven with Him, and hell without Him, we choose. The Bible also says in romans 5:10-11 NASB that; "For if while we [Christians] were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation." Note that Paul says that while we were enemies, meaning before we accepted Jesus, God had reconciled us to Himself. The whole world is reconciled to God, thats how every Christian, hindu, muslim and atheist are even allowed to stand before the uncreated creator and be shown any sort of kindness, despite what we have done to Him by disobeying His laws. But it's only those who have 'now received the reconciliation' who are able to stay standing before God for all of eternity. It's only those who want to be with Him, who havent rejected His son and what He did on the cross. It's only those who want to have relationship with God who God will spend forever with. If it's not the Christian God, or any other religious god that's up there, but rather some generic being of light that definitely seems to want to love on us and have a relationship with us and show kindness to us. Then how can we be in that relationship with him here on earth if he hasn't given us, or anyone else before this generation any sort of material here on earth besides the bible to show us how to be in relationship with him, or how to accept him? How has he shown us how to escape this place of hell that people go to? Why do some people who think their 'good' have the hellish nde, whereas some others who are bad people and even reject the idea of a loving God get shown this amazing place with so much love from an intimate creator? It's because the kindness of the biblical God leads those people who experience Him in a near death experience to repentance. People who come back from a heaven nde and reject the God of the bible, I'm convinced, do it either because they were deceived, or because they have some form of church hurt, or bad experiences from Christians in the past. Maybe they misunderstand certain passages in the bible that arn’t what they think. Let's not blame Jesus in light of some Christians on earth who play Christ poorly. As for reincarnation, I don't believe that's whats going on, because from what I've seen and heard, alot of people who experience heaven see their loved ones on the other side, alot of which seem very excited to see the nder, people who seem to have been there for a while. If reincarnation were true, then why are there people on the other side at all? Shouldn't they have just come back right away as a new person? Doesn't this God want to lavish His love on us forever? Why would He instead just send us back again and again to the earth? Just some things to think about. I hope I've helped you on your journey Keto. If you want to talk back and forth with me about this, let me know.:) Otherwise, God bless you and enjoy your week!