Brain Chemistry Can Produce Jesus

Years ago, a women came over to me in a crowd and asked that we meet privately. When we met she said she reads this blog and agrees with much of it. But, for her there was one exception. Jesus had visited her in a dream so she knew there is a Jesus.

Add to her story the endless successful books written by people who had near death experiences where they saw Jesus or God or a portal to heaven. I watched Benny Hinn one night describing how Jesus spoke to him in a dream.

These contemporary experiences pale compared to what is in the Bible. Paul talked to Jesus several times after Jesus was supposed to be dead. There are the "revealed" stories. These are taken by believers to be historical events even though obvious fiction to non believers.

The big one is the Resurrection. No one writing or quoted in the Bible claimed to have seen Jesus alive after he was supposed to have been dead. Yet, the story, like that of Obama being born in Kenya, goes on and on.

The source of the Resurrection story is not known. There are a couple of logical explanations. One is that it was made up and based on previous heroes who "came back to life." Another is someone saw the alive Jesus in a dream or hallucination.

New research has shown the experiences described in near death experiences is nearly identical to those of people who have taken hallucinogenic drugs. To reduce the subjectivity, researchers compared computer generated comparisons of the words used to describe the experiences. The similarity was persuasive.

The evidence is that past and present conversations with Jesus were/are produced by brain chemistry. Perhaps instead of reading the Bible I can take some LSD and talk to Jesus myself.