He emerged from the coma with memories of a fantastical adventure, during which he rode on a butterfly beside an angelic blue-eyed girl into "an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting." In Proof of Heaven (Simon and Schuster, 2012), his bestselling book about his experience, Alexander claims to have learned that "God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition." In 2008 he fell into a coma, his brain infected by bacterial meningitis. He is a neurosurgeon who learned his craft at Duke and honed it at Harvard. Is heaven real? Eben Alexander thinks so. ResurrectionĬhristians believe that Jesus was resurrected. Some Christians believe that everyone will eventually repent and be forgiven. Instead, they believe people will be offered an opportunity to pay back for their sin. These Christians do not think that God would punish people for eternity.
Many also argue that the existence of Hell would contradict God’s omnibenevolent nature. Many Christians have rejected literal interpretations of Hell, acknowledging that in the past the idea of Hell was used to frighten people into obeying the Church's rules. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. In contrast, the Bible depicts Hell as a terrible place where souls will not know the presence of God. They will know God on a more personal level, meaning that they will be aware of his physical presence along with realising his nature as all-loving and forgiving. In Heaven, Christians may be happy and surrounded by their favourite things. Additionally, Roman Catholics believe in a place called Purgatory, where sins are punished and where a person’s soul undergoes purification before it can go to Heaven. Instead they believe that Heaven and Hell could be states of mind - for example, Heaven might be a place of unending happiness. Some Christians do not believe that Heaven and Hell are necessarily physical places. In the New Testament, St Paul explains judgement to early Christians: For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due to us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Those who are judged as acceptable will have a place in Heaven but those who are not thought to have been good enough will go to Hell. Many Christians believe that at the end of time there will be a Day of Judgement when all souls (regardless of religion) will be judged by God.
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