Alex asked, "I have a level three kind of question to tee up for you. Is there something beyond the Christian near death-experience? And if there is something beyond it, then can it really be called a Christian near-death experience?"
Although I've never had a near death experience I had a friend, a most unlikely candidate for such, who did. During the event he had what is now referred to as a, "life review" and he insisted while it was playing before his eyes, "like a movie" sitting beside him on the seat of his old truck as it was being struck by a speeding train, "was an Angel." Although the man, of French Canadian descent was likely a baptized Catholic he was far from devout. Jesus was not present in his case but the presence of an, "Angel" who may have been instrumental somehow in sparing his life possibly makes it a Christian experience anyway.
Although I've never had a near death experience I had a friend, a most unlikely candidate for such, who did. During the event he had what is now referred to as a, "life review" and he insisted while it was playing before his eyes, "like a movie" sitting beside him on the seat of his old truck as it was being struck by a speeding train, "was an Angel." Although the man, of French Canadian descent was likely a baptized Catholic he was far from devout. Jesus was not present in his case but the presence of an, "Angel" who may have been instrumental somehow in sparing his life possibly makes it a Christian experience anyway.