‘I Almost Died’: Inside Ex-Atheist Lee Strobel’s Journey to Find Proof of Heaven, Hell and Near-Death Experiences By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire
Is there certifiable and discernible evidence for life after death? That’s the key curiosity at the core of author Lee Strobel’s new, investigative journey into heaven, hell, and near-death experiences.
Strobel, whose incredible transformation from atheist journalist to one of the most impactful Christian apologists of our time has inspired millions, told Faithwire that the inspiration behind his latest book, “The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death,” came from his own near-fatal health crisis.
“It started several years ago, when I almost died. My wife found me unconscious on the bedroom floor,” he said. “She called an ambulance. I woke up in the emergency room and the doctor looked down at me and said, ‘You’re one step away from a coma, two steps away from dying,’ and then [I] went unconscious again and lingered between life and death for a while until the doctors were able to save me.’”
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Something happened after Strobel found himself “hovering over that blurry line between life and death” — he became more intensely interested in exploring the realities awaiting humans after death.
As a pastor and apologist, Strobel believed Scripture wholeheartedly, but his near-death experience sent him on a journey to find corroborative evidence of the afterlife to back the biblical accounts.
“I was a Christian at the time this happened. I was a pastor and so I believe what the Bible teaches about the afterlife,” he said. “But … I’ve also got a skeptical gear.”
Watch Strobel discuss his fascinating exploration of heaven, hell, and the afterlife:
Strobel pondered at the time whether science corroborates the Bible — something for which he now has a definitive answer: it absolutely does.
“It caused me to dig a little deeper,” he said. “And I was really kind of surprised by several things I discovered, because they really do … in an unexpected way … corroborate what the Bible tells us about the afterlife.”
