The Case of Heaven!

From the best-selling author and former atheist turned Christian apologist Lee Strobel, uncover the next investigation: What happens after we die?

Documentary from best-selling author and former atheist turned Christian apologist Lee Strobel. He examines near-death experiences and tries to determine what happens after life on earth.

In the“The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death”

Harry Broom needs an emergency surgery. He is an atheist and had a near-death experience in a “dank, dark hallway” where individuals became increasingly violent. He remembers the song “Jesus Loves Me” when was a child. When he asked Jesus to save him, a light appeared and he was brought back to life.

The musician Eric Owyoung wrote the music for this movie. The author of "Imagine Heaven", John Burke, interviewed people with lots to lose. Pamela Reyonds had a brain aneurysm during surgery. The professional skateboarder, Steve Caballero, went from athiest to believer.

Jon Steingard - Hawk Nelson band member - believer to atheist/agnostic

Francis Chan - author, pastor - “Erasing Hell: What God Said About Eternity, and the Things We’ve Made Up.” His mother died in childbirth and his father blamed him for that.

Luis Palau - lifelong evangelist, dying of stage four cancer - Lee visited and interviewed him before his death.

Lee Strobel had a medical emergency and a near-death experience

What happens next? What happens if I close my eyes and don’t open them again in this world.

People will commit heinous acts in an attempt to be remembered forever.

Search for the Soul: does the soul survive physical death? What is the evidence we have a soul and that it can survive?

Lee talks about attending a Rolling Stone and Tina Turner concert in the 1980s and comes to the conclusion that “you just had to be there” because words can’t describe it.

Lee admits that he was skeptical about near-death experiences.

Near-Death Experience: interviews with people who went through them and have researched them.

The commonality in accounts is a life review where individuals get to relive portions of their lives or see what is happening during the time they were dead.

Lots of dissenting voices in the Christian community on near-death experiences.

The pursuit for proof of God - would a loving Father really hide Himself and require blind belief from children He loves so much?

Concept of hell - heaven is a gift only if we are willing to receive it. Consequently, being separated from God during life means you will be separated from Him for eternity.

Hell is not a torture chamber, it’s torment to live an eternity without God’s presence in our lives.

What is faith? Biblical faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence points in - it’s very logical and rational.

Jesus has the answers about the afterlife because He experienced it.

The Case for Christ: the 4 E’s that support the case for Christ: Execution, Early Reports, Empty Tomb, Eyewitness. Execution (Christ was truly dead after the crucifixion); Rose from the dead (Early reports within months of execution from those who witnessed it); Empty tomb (opponents of Jesus even admitted it was empty, tried to explain away why it was empty); Eyewitness (9 ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, about the encounter with Risen Christ).

Edge of Eternity: Luis was anxious to go and he wasn’t afraid of death. Loss of contact, loss of the relationship, those of us who are left behind.

Attacks by Satan at the very end of your life tempt you to question the decisions you’ve made throughout life.

Natural to mourn the loss of physical, earthly life.

The themes in this movie are:

People fear death and try to compensate by leaving a legacy

Distractions of this world help people avoid thinking about death

Can science and belief in God coexist? Does free will exist?

“To be a thinking person is to live out what it means to be made in the image of God”

How do these near-death experiences intersect with what the Bible says?

Christian leaders hesitate to discuss hell because it creates a lot of fear

Doubts whether we are actually loved and every person wants to be loved - it’s up to us to open our hearts to God to let His love in and reveal that to others

Bible Verses

Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” – Luke 23:43 (NIV)

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. – 2 Corinthians 5:8 (NIV)

Jesus wept. – John 11:30-40 (NIV)

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