A Blasphemy to the God
It is said about 20% of those who faced death but were recovered to live have near-death-experiences and about 20% of medical doctors think that near-death-experiences really show life after death.
However, Raymond Moody (1944 -) says that science has not yet explained how near-death-experiences occur in a recent interview, although he wrote books on near-death-experiences based on hundreds of cases he has studied.
As those who confessed that they had near-death-experiences did not tell that they met spirits of people living in this world but only of those who had already died during such experiences, it seems to corroborate credibility of these reports on such experiences.
From the beginning, Christ Jesus taught His teachings and the Gospels presented part of His lives based on the notion that there was the afterlife in addition to the God and Satan. The concept of Heaven is at the central part of His teachings to the poor, the weeping, the suffering, the pure in heart, the merciful, etc. to comfort and save them, although the fight against Satan must be the hidden major theme.
Science is the method or way for men to understand the nature and the universe. Even Plato of ancient Greek believed near-death-experiences and life after death without knowing the modern science we know today. There must be other ways to comprehend the nature, the universe, this world and the spirit world, etc. There must be various elements, events, and things that can be only perceived, say, by intuition or faith in the God.
Rather, today, there are some people who claim that they have supernatural power or spiritual ability to see spirits of the dead or futures. Most of them often tell that relatives of people who asked them to perform as spirit mediums are living happily in the afterlife.
Indeed, those who had near-death-experiences rarely said that they had entered into the hell or saw Satan or devils. They mostly reported that they had seen super-bright light or angel-like figures. That may be so only because they had just came to the entrance to the spirit world. Afterwards, they should have been led to Heaven or the hell. The afterlife should not be simply the fairy-tale-like world where even evil men who had sold their souls to Satan while living in this world could live happily forever.
In this context, it can be understood that the Vatican does not support studies on near-death-experiences. They must not view stories like Harry Potter with favors. Only communications with spirits and the spirit world acknowledged by the Vatican should be, they must think, encouraged.
Anyway, if you believe that you have your own minds whose work cannot be yet fully explained by science, it is better to believe that there is life after death before you die, since near-death-experiences suggest that such conviction should help you out of fear and desperate.
It should be helpful to know that Plato of ancient Greek still admired by the modern scholars believed life after death before Christ Jesus. And, in Buddhist world, the Tibetan Book of the Dead presented the sate of the consciousness after death and how men should be prepared for their death, since Tibetans in the 8th century when the Book was compiled thought that the moment right before death was crucial for one's salvation from bondage of this world.
Therefore, it can be said that life after death exists just like everybody has his own mind. And it must be a blasphemy to the God not to believe in life after death in the spirit world that is closer to the God than this world.
Mark 7, King James Version
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.