A former pastor who has studied over 1,000 reports of is convinced Hell is real after people told him they encounterd "demons" in the afterlife. Bestselling author John Burke told podcaster that, even as a Christian, hearing these stories has changed his views on life after death. He said he now takes the more literally.
“Studying this has actually changed my theology – even as a Christian and even as a pastor,” John explained. “I used to think a lot of it was just fantastical or metaphorical, but hearing enough of these people saying the things they say, what I've come to is that on the good side all of our wildest dreams and fantasies and fiction and the the things we only dream of that might be possible [Heaven is] better than that. “And the horror that we can imagine and see and come up with – [Hell is] worse than that.
And both are based in a reality that's beyond this life.” A huge number of people that John has spoken to claim to have been shown both heaven and Hell, before being offered an opportunity to repent their sins. He continued: “They get both a heavenly and a hellish experience, and I find that those who cry out to God for forgiveness at the last minute – it's almost like he lets them see where they were headed before rescuing them.
” He told the story of a pal named Jim Woodford who accidentally took an overdose of painkillers he had been prescribed as a result of suffering the very painful Guillain-Barré syndrome. John said: “He said .
