What you're about to read is hard to
believe. . .
We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell. We'll present documented
evidence for a place called hell. Don't take what you're going to read lightly.
If what you read is true ? YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER!
Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond Death's Door by Dr.
Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and
Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead.
Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death
nothing more than a painless extinction". But something happened in 1977 that
brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a
man, terrified and screaming ? descending down into the
flames of hell: "Each time he regained heartbeat 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 perspiring and trembling ? he looked
as if his hair was "on end."
Then still another strange thing happened. He said,"Don't you understand? I
am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and
it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like
I had never seen before. "(Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door, (Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3). Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard
his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single
minute that he was actually in a place called hell!The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162
references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these
references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!...
ABSTRACT: The percentage of
hell-like near-death experiences (NDEs) is probably much larger than has been
previously claimed. In this article, I discuss current research into what are
now termed "distressing" or "unpleasant" NDEs, and my own findings from
interviews of over a hundred such cases. I compare this information with earlier
reports from Maurice Rawlings (1978, 1980), mythological traditions about the
concept of hell, and renderings from The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz,
1957). Finally, I detail four types of NDEs -- initial, hell-like, heaven-like,
and transcendental -- and what seems to be an attitudinal profile characteristic
of each type.
My plane was late. That meant I
had to run lengthy corridors at Dulles International Airport near Washington,
D.C., to catch my next flight. As I ran, another woman scurrying in the opposite
direction yelled, "I know who you are; you're the woman I just saw on
television. You're the gutsy one who talks about negative near-death
experiences. Keep doing it. Don't stop." I was so startled by her comment, I
momentarily slowed my pace and yelled back, "Who are you? What do you mean by
that?" Her answer surprised me. "I'm a surgical nurse at a hospital in Phoenix,
Arizona. We have lots of near-death cases there, and almost all of them are the
negative kind. You know what I mean --people who wind up in hell!" Before I
could respond further, she was out of sight. I wanted to go after her and ask
more questions-- What hospital? How many cases? How long has this been
happening? Why haven't you reported it? but my pressing need to hurry convinced
me otherwise. I barely made my connection. This incident happened in 1989, a
year when I was nearly overwhelmed by reports from people who experienced a
hellish environment at the brink of death, rather than a heavenly one.
Most researchers of the
near-death experience (NDE) report that unpleasant cases are quite rare,
numbering less than one percent of the thousands thus far investigated and of
the eight million tallied by a Gallup Poll during a survey on the subject
published in 1982 (Gallup and Proctor, 1982). Yet my experiences interviewing
near-death survivors since 1978 have consistently shown me otherwise, suggesting
an abundance of such cases: 105 out of the more than 700 I have queried.
At the 1990 Washington, D.C.,
conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS),
Bruce Greyson, a psychiatrist noted for his long-term commitment to near-death
research, admitted that people like himself had not been asking the right
questions to identify those who might have undergone "dark" or distressing
episodes . He confessed: "We didn't try to find them because we didn't want to
know." His comment underscored the fact that, for the most part, published
reports of near-death studies have side-stepped "negative" accounts. Greyson and
Nancy Evans Bush, President of IANDS, have recently completed a descriptive
study of 50 terrifying cases they have collected over the past 9 years (Greyson
and Bush, 1992). Others whose work has acknowledged the existence of such
experiences include British researcher Margot Grey (1985) and sociologist
Charles Flynn (1986). Cardiologist Maurice Rawlings and myself, however, have
actively pursued near-death reports of a hellish nature since the very beginning
of our involvement in the field.
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What you're about to read is hard to
believe. . .
We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell. We'll present documented
evidence for a place called hell. Don't take what you're going to read lightly.
If what you read is true ? YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER!
Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond Death's Door by Dr.
Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and
Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead.
Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death
nothing more than a painless extinction". But something happened in 1977 that
brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a
man, terrified and screaming ? descending down into the
flames of hell: "Each time he regained heartbeat 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 perspiring and trembling ? he looked
as if his hair was "on end."
Then still another strange thing happened. He said,"Don't you understand? I
am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and
it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like
I had never seen before. "(Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door, (Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3). Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard
his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single
minute that he was actually in a place called hell!The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162
references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these
references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!...
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Hell is typically conceived in two ways: 1. Hell as a condition:
Hell is the condition of being separate from God. 2. Hell as a place/space location:
Hell is the home of condemned souls and devils; the place of eternal punishment
for the wicked after death, presided over by Satan who (according to the Bible)
will be sent there one day but Satan is not living there now. Nowhere in the
Bible is Satan mentioned as currently residing in Hell. In fact Job 1:6 states
that Satan appeared with other angels "before the Lord." Then God asked Satan
where he had been, Satan replied, "From roaming through the earth and going
back and forth in it." - Satan freely moves about Earth. In 1 Peter 5:8 it
is stated, "Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking
for someone to devour." Where did this concept of Hell come from? If
we look at the Bible we see several Greek and Hebrew words being "translated" as
Hell. In the New Testament, the original Greek words translated into English as
"Hell" are "Geenna or Gehenna", "Hades", and a verb, "tartaroo"
Gehenna: The term Gehenna (Greek Geenna;
Hebrew Ge Hinnom), was an actual location south of Jerusalem - The
Valley of Hinnom. This location was considered a place of abomination
because the Bible states that in ancient times Israelites sacrificed their
children to a malevolent deity named Moloch, whose worship included human
sacrifice, ordeals by fire, and self-mutilation. (See 2 Kings 16:3 - where
Ahaz "burned his son as an offering") Later Gehenna became a refuse dump
where filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned. The
fires were continually maintained to prevent the spread of disease. What
the fire did not consume in this place, the worms devoured. Hence Jesus's
reference to Gehenna (later translated as Hell) as a place of "wailing and
of gnashing of teeth, where the worm does not die" and "where the fire never
goes out." To the ancient Greeks, Hades as place, was the
underworld itself which was divided into two parts. One part for the dead and
the other deeper part was for the captured Titans. Hades according to the myth
was a grim place where the souls of the dead were sent....
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What you're about to read is hard to
believe. . .
We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell. We'll present documented
evidence for a place called hell. Don't take what you're going to read lightly.
If what you read is true ? YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER! 
(from the Spring '92
Journal of Near-Death Studies Vol.10, No.3)
)
Hell is typically conceived in two ways: 1. Hell as a condition:
Hell is the condition of being separate from God. 2. Hell as a place/space location: 
