{"id":2118586,"date":"2023-12-07T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-on-near-death-experiences-says-theyre-faith-building-evidence-of-god-these-are-testimonies\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:38:45","slug":"expert-on-near-death-experiences-says-theyre-faith-building-evidence-of-god-these-are-testimonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-on-near-death-experiences-says-theyre-faith-building-evidence-of-god-these-are-testimonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-death experiences are faith-building evidence of God, says expert. They are powerful testimonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexpert-on-near-death-experiences-says-theyre-faith-building-evidence-of-god-these-are-testimonies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2118586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Expert on Near-Death Experiences Says They&#8217;re Faith-Building Evidence of God: &#8216;These Are Testimonies&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Death has defined the life of author and pastor John Burke. And that\u2019s why he \u2063lives with hope.<\/p>\n<p>Burke, who researched near<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/near-death-experiences-a-look-back-at-famous-figures-whose-claims-drew-criticism\/\" title=\"\u2018Near-Death\u2019 Experiences: A Look Back At Famous Figures Whose Claims Drew Criticism\">-death experiences<\/a> for 35 years, covering more than 1,000 cases before\u2064 he published his dynamic 2015 book \u2063\u201cImagine Heaven,\u201d is back with \u201cImagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God\u2019s Revelation, and the Love You\u2019ve Always Wanted,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/books\/john-burke-world-gets-worse-god-revealing-himself-more.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Christian Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat blew me\u200b away is the people that God brought to me this time in writing\u200b \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imagine-God-Heaven-Near-Death-Experiences\/dp\/1496479904\">Imagine the God\u2063 of Heaven\u2019<\/a> are from every continent,\u2063 every background imaginable,\u201d Burke said of the new book,\u2063 which features 70\u200b stories of people who\u2063 were clinically dead but \u2063came back to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I started to realize as I was researching and thinking\u200b about the book is that He wants everybody to know He is the God of all nations. He created every person of every race, color, every nation to be His child, and that His love for each one of us is so unique,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our crazy world, what feels like evil on the rise, I think God is giving greater testimony globally to His reality and His great \u200blove for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burke, who founded the Gateway Church in Austin, Texas, said during \u2062a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O8b_dIn_cHg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview \u200cwith CBN \u200dNews<\/a> \u2064 that \u201cthese are testimonies\u201d of the truth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/christian-theologian-fired-expressing-gospel-based-view-homosexuality-files-lawsuit-bible-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hopes they\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wholesome-actress-danica-mckellar-shares-joys-faith-journey-finding-christ-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do for \u2064others<\/a> what they did for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first heard about this, I was an agnostic,\u201d Burke said. \u201cSo, hearing these experiences as an engineer got\u200c me thinking, \u2018Maybe this is evidence,\u2019 and then it got me into\u2063 the scriptures, and then I started to see the evidence, and I came to faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Burke said all of the people he studied died at one point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I study is when someone clinically dies, their heart stops, \u2063they have no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-enacts-protections-for-unborn-babies-at-15-weeks\/\" title=\"Florida Enacts Protections for Unborn Babies at 15 Weeks\">brain waves<\/a>,\u201d Burke said. \u201cAnd yet either modern medicine or miracle brings them back, and\u200d sometimes minutes later, sometimes it\u2019s hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when they come back, they talk\u200b about experiencing the life to come, and \u2064they talk about how\u2062 it\u2019s more real than anything they\u2019ve ever experienced in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burke said the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/limbaughs-brother-god-spoke-rush-final-shows-didnt-believe-death-near\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-wave-of-portland-police-quit-amid-massive-spike-in-shootings-and-stabbings-fire-dept-responding-to-10-homeless-tent-fires-a-day\/\" title=\"Another Wave Of Portland Police Quit Amid Massive Spike In Shootings And Stabbings; Fire Dept. Responding To 10+ Homeless Tent Fires A Day\">common theme<\/a><\/a> among the people he chronicled is that \u201cthey are seeing and experiencing the God of Scripture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re looking, not only at His love story told throughout history in the Bible, but also\u200c His heart and characteristics, the mystery, the majesty \u200cof God,\u201d\u2064 Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2023\/12\/01\/pastor-who-has-studied-1000-near-death-experiences-reveals-why-he-believes-claims-of-visiting-heaven-help-prove-the-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faithwire,<\/a> he said he understands there is skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>But Burke told CBN \u2064News that he wants to \u201cexpand people\u2019s box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way I like to describe it is: Imagine if all of our existence is being \u200blived on a flat black-and-white painting on \u200bthe wall of\u2063 your home,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath means separation. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/story-behind-artist-viral-rich-men-northttps:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/story-behind-artist-viral-rich-men-north-richmond-will-move-deepest-parts-soul\/h-richmond-will-move-deepest-parts-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soul<\/a> separates from your body. So,\u2062 imagine at death, you peel \u2062off that two-dimensional black-and-white painting, you\u2064 come out here into a three-dimensional world of color,\u200b and then imagine getting pressed back in and \u2063you have to describe three \u2063dimensions of color in two-dimensional \u2063black-and-white \u200bterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are experiencing God\u2019s\u2063 reality, the reality\u2062 of a life that is extra-dimensional,\u201d he \u2063said.<\/p>\n<p>Burke noted\u2064 that it is not only Christians who\u200d express \u200ca similar vision of Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Burke\u2019s\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/imagineheaven.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> explains that, \u201cFor decades, Burke has\u200d been studying accounts of survivors brought back from near death who lived to tell of both heavenly and hellish experiences. While\u200d not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors\u2014including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of \u2064all \u200bages and cultures, and even blind people\u2013point to the exhilarating picture of\u200d Heaven promised in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/expert-near-death-experiences-says-faith-building-evidence-god-testimonies\/\">Expert on Near-Death Experiences Says\u200d They&#8217;re Faith-Building Evidence of God: &#8216;These Are Testimonies&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on\u200c <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The\u200d Western\u2064 Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What was the impact of near<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/near-death-survivors-experience-purposeful-life-review-without-external-signs-of-consciousness-study\/\" title=\"Study: Near-death survivors have purposeful life review without external signs of consciousness.\">-death\u200d experiences<\/a> on Burke&#8217;s personal journey from \u200cbeing an \u200bagnostic to\u2062 a person of faith<\/h2>\n<p><span>  News,\u2062 &#8220;The scriptural revelation \u200c\u2063is one that talks\u2063 about two \u200bworlds. \u2063And people have been\u200c \u2062coming back from this world they experienced \u200b\u2062to\u2063 say it\u2019s so real\u2062 it changes their priorities in this life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to\u200b Burke, these near-death \u200cexperiences serve as evidence for \u200bthe existence of God and\u2062 the truth of the Bible. He believes that these testimonies, shared by individuals from\u200d different backgrounds and cultures, demonstrate that God&#8217;s love is universal and that He wants \u200beveryone to know Him as their Father.<\/p>\n<p>With the \u200bworld facing various \u200cchallenges and what\u200b may seem like an increase\u200c in evil, Burke sees these near-death experiences as a\u2064 way for God to reveal Himself more to humanity and provide hope \u200cin troubling times.<\/p>\n<p>Burke&#8217;s own journey \u2062from being an agnostic to a person of faith was\u2063 sparked by his encounter\u200d with \u200bnear-death experiences. As an engineer, he \u2062approached these experiences as potential evidence and began to delve into the\u2064 scriptures, eventually leading to his conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Through his research, Burke found\u2062 that individuals who had clinically died and\u2063 then revived often reported vivid experiences\u2063 of the afterlife that felt\u2062 more real than anything they had ever experienced\u2064 in\u200b this world. These experiences consistently\u2063 pointed towards the\u200c God described in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>However, Burke acknowledges that \u2063there\u200b may be skepticism surrounding near-death experiences. He understands\u2063 that some may question the authenticity \u2062and interpret\u200c them differently. Nevertheless, he maintains that these \u200ctestimonies\u200c hold\u200c significant value and provide a glimpse into the reality of the spiritual realm.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, \u200cJohn Burke&#8217;s findings \u2064and beliefs point to near-death experiences as faith-building evidence of God. By\u2062 exploring these testimonies, he hopes to inspire\u200b others to seek a deeper understanding of God&#8217;s love and \u2063the eternal life that awaits\u2063 them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death shapes author and pastor John Burke&#8217;s existence, fueling his optimism. After studying over 1,000 near-death encounters for 35 years, he released the captivating book &#8220;Imagine Heaven&#8221; in 2015. Now, Burke returns with &#8220;Imagine the God of Heaven,&#8221; delving into near-death experiences, divine revelations, and the power of love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2118587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}