Q. Hello Lynn, I'm very interested in your thoughts on "A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion" by Bryan W. Melvin. The author took his written experience from the dark depths of storage and turned it into a book. This is his story of how he died and was granted passage into hell.
A. This question pulled me in and I looked up his book. I don't own the book (yet) but read the intro that was available on Amazon. I also found him telling his story on various interviews and listened to his experience as he described it.
It is my belief that everyone has a different relationship with God depending on your life experience, therefore if someone does have a near death (or actual death) experience they can be very different. No two are the same, but the one common theme is that they do experience something - a vision, sensation, etc. It is clear that there is something after death.
God is the only one that truly knows what is in your heart. For that reason we are not to judge one another - leave that up to Him. We are human and we may have thoughts or opinions, but the true judgement comes from above. God knew that even though Bryan was atheist and living against the Lord, he could see his heart and took an opportunity to show Bryan where he was headed when he nearly died of an infection. God wasn't done or giving up on this man.
Just as Jacob Marley showed Scrooge the potential future, God did this with Bryan on a much more grandiose and emotional scale. The vision of hell was horrific. The emotions there were of loneliness, despair and complete helplessness. The heat and stench overcame him in waves, and the description is bone-chilling. I've always had the belief in different vibrational or spiritual planes - and I sense that hell holds a place within one of those lower vibrational planes.
As asked in the question, my thoughts are that heaven and hell are not a concept to take lightly. Until we transition (or have a near death experience) to the next life we don't TRULY know what our personal experience will be. I do know that if you live a life or morality and repent when you make a mistake (we are all still human) the experience will be great. The choice seems clear to me and nothing on this earthly plane is worth chancing eternity.
Blessings,
Lynn
2 comments:
I have read this book and I was awe struck. Hell is of ones own making. What goes around comes around.
@Suz: Yes! I agree.
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