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>>Ankerberg: Okay. What we have here is, we’re all friends and sometimes friends can disagree
and that’s good. And here’s where obviously we’ve got different opinions on this. Dave
Hunt, you also would hold that there might be a deception with some of these experiences.
Tell us what you’re talking about.
>>Hunt: Well, I mean, in my research—and I’ve interviewed people, not clinically
dead people, people on drugs, under hypnosis, in yoga, all around the world—and I can
tell you that there is a commonality to this experience. And amazingly, I mean, from my
interviews, it conforms precisely to what the Bible says are the four lies that the
serpent told Eve in the garden. . .
>>Ankerberg: Which are?
>>Hunt: Now, that tells me where this is coming from. That God is not personal but He’s
a force; that there is no death. A lot of these people come back and it can encourage
people to commit suicide. We haven’t seen that. They come back, “Oh, no matter what
kind of a life I lived,” I suppose even Hitler is embraced by this light. No judgment.
That was the second lie of the serpent. God is a force. A force, being impersonal, isn’t
going to hassle you with morals and then there’s this warm feeling. No death. You don’t really
die. And these people are saying, “I’m not afraid of death anymore. I was happy to
die. I didn’t want to come back.” The third thing is that you can become like God.
If this force is just a force and you can tune in to the infinite with your mind, you
know, then we’re evolving upwards to godhood. And the fourth lie, the tree of knowledge.
Nothing wrong with you except the way you think. You’ve been caught in the downward
spiral of your negative thinking. You have to recognize this potential that we all have
and tune in to this and be transformed. And I see this under hypnosis, under drugs. By
the way, if we all dropped—and I’ve interviewed many people like this—we all drop acid right
now, okay, suddenly, we are all catapulted into the same landscape. We’re seeing the
same creatures. We’re all experiencing the same thing. Now, you cannot explain that physiologically.
>>Ankerberg: There’s no such thing as group hallucination.
>>Hunt: There is a common source of inspiration and delusion. Now, it’s interesting. Again,
what I have seen in discussing this with many people, that Satan sometimes, the Bible says
he “transforms himself into an angel of light.” He comes on as a nice being. But
he is intrinsically evil. And he can’t hide that, and it comes out. This can even explain
the hellish experiences, where suddenly that evil comes out. Now, all I can say is, I’ve
correlated this around the world.