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The One Thing Many People Who Have Near Death Experiences Have In Common

Dr. Jeffrey Long studied the stories of 3,000 people who have had near death experiences.
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Religion Reporter, HuffPost

It doesn’t matter if they nearly died in an auto accident or a drug overdose, giving birth or attempting suicide.

Among the thousands of people who chose to share their near-death experiences with the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, the report is often the same: They come back with a profound understanding of God’s love.

Theologians sometimes talk about the omnibenevolence of God, the idea that God’s grace and charity is unlimited or infinite. For many who talk about encountering God, this term comes closest to the reality they describe. Here is a sampling of what some NDErs had to say about God’s love.

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Visions Of Heaven
Paradiso(01 of10)
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In Dante's Paradiso, the final installment of his three-part Divine Comedy, the saintly gather in a celestial rose. (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
Paradise Beckons(02 of10)
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Fra Angelico's 15th-century fresco portrays throngs of joyful, righteous Christians dancing with angels through a beautiful, earthlike garden into a heavenly kingdom, a physical place of light and beauty. (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
Duomo(03 of10)
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A fresco in the Duomo in Florence depicts the blessing and admission of the faithful through heaven's gate, guarded by Saint Peter. (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
Epic Journey(04 of10)
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A fresco in Florence's Duomo presents an image of the poet Dante holding a copy of his masterwork, surrounded by images of his stratified realms of paradise, purgatory, and hell. (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
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Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch imagined humans in an earthly paradise and passage to the highest part of heaven (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
City of God(06 of10)
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In a Renaissance-era illustration for Augustine's ancient masterwork, saints are received in heaven above while sinners below either strive for Christian virtue or suffer damnation. (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
Book of the Dead(07 of10)
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In an Egyptian funerary text dating to the period of 1069-945 B.C., the deceased meets the falcon-headed god Horus and Hathor, goddess of love. These documents were placed in tombs to help the dead navigate the afterlife. (credit:TIME / Lisa Miller)
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