Dr.Maurice Rawlings, M.D., cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, was a devout atheist who considered all religion "hocus-pocus." To him, death was nothing more than a painless extinction.
But in 1977, Rawlings was resusicating a man who came back from the edge of death. The man was terrified and screaming. Rawling wrote: Each time he regained hearbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death...Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was preparing and trembling-he looked as if his hair was on end.
Dr.Rawlings shaken became intrigued with near death experience, and as he researched the subject, doing much of his study first-hand, he discovered something that has been omitted by much of the prevailing literature. There are many stories of near-death experiences in which people report moving down a peaceful tunnel toward a gentle light, but Dr. Rawlings' research, which later appeared in Omni Magazine, demonstrated that about fifty percent near-death victims report seeing lake of fire, devil-like figures and other sights reflecting the darkness of hell.
"Just listening to these patients has changed my whole life," claims Dr.Rawlings. "There is a life after death, and if I don't know where I'm going, it's not safe to die."
Through these experiences, Dr.Rawlings began studying what the Bible had to say about hell and other subjects and he became a Christians.
The realities of heaven and hell are closer than we think, and the Bible minces no words. "prepare to meet your God" (Amos 4:12). But Jesus - God made flesh-died and rose from the grave to rob death of its sting and to deny hell its victims. "This," he said in John 17:3, "is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
But in 1977, Rawlings was resusicating a man who came back from the edge of death. The man was terrified and screaming. Rawling wrote: Each time he regained hearbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death...Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was preparing and trembling-he looked as if his hair was on end.
Dr.Rawlings shaken became intrigued with near death experience, and as he researched the subject, doing much of his study first-hand, he discovered something that has been omitted by much of the prevailing literature. There are many stories of near-death experiences in which people report moving down a peaceful tunnel toward a gentle light, but Dr. Rawlings' research, which later appeared in Omni Magazine, demonstrated that about fifty percent near-death victims report seeing lake of fire, devil-like figures and other sights reflecting the darkness of hell.
"Just listening to these patients has changed my whole life," claims Dr.Rawlings. "There is a life after death, and if I don't know where I'm going, it's not safe to die."
Through these experiences, Dr.Rawlings began studying what the Bible had to say about hell and other subjects and he became a Christians.
The realities of heaven and hell are closer than we think, and the Bible minces no words. "prepare to meet your God" (Amos 4:12). But Jesus - God made flesh-died and rose from the grave to rob death of its sting and to deny hell its victims. "This," he said in John 17:3, "is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
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Yup..heaven and hell exist. ^_^, I really wanna go to a better place when I die. What is all about the hard work I put here on earth if its amount to nothing when I die?.
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