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"Life after Death"

Do you believe in life after death?. Following being diagnosed with cancer my life was put on stop, my world changed instantly. I and my family were in shock but I was not mad or asked why me?. I was however mad at the system that allowed me to get in this situation because there was history in my case that appeared not to mean a thing. I then had experiences that only convinced me that there are stranger things in heaven than on earth. Not a stranger to mystical events in the past I started a mission to work with cancer

I laugh at getting annoyed at 'politically correct madness' :p

The only reason I say such things is because I know what forums are like and there've been lots of arguments before. As it is, I think it's a load of rubbish, but each to their own ;)

'Politically correct madness', quotes from the bible or any other religious scripture is all interpretations, who if any are correct in this crazy world. Michael J. Behe came to believe that there was evidence, at a biochemical level, that there were systems that were “irreducible complex”. These were systems that he thought could not, even in principle, have evolved by natural selection, and thus must have been created by an "intelligent designer," which he believed to be the only possible alternative explanation for such complex structures.
If Behe doesn’t have a model or a mathematical formula then he must be "wrong," to conform to the scientific world.

In recent weeks I have been in touch with other cancer patients and family members across the world. It is interesting to hear their experiences when their loved ones pass on.
It is difficult for people to admit or stop and question anything beyond this world and life. Recently Colin Fry demonstrated how patients in a coma, still alive clinically in hospital had made contact with and where spiritually in the afterlife. Their body was physically on this plane but their “soul” was in another place. He was able to pass information on to relatives about personal events that he could not possible have known.

I don't know the details of such things.

But to attribute such information to 'psychic' connection is to define something intensely arbitary. People DO question reality, it's done extensively in philosophy, which I put more trust in than some guy who can speak to 'souls' because...he said they were souls.

The bible wasn't written by God, but by men looking to solidify the basis of the religion they were creating around the far fewer words and ideas delivered to them by a messiah. How then, can it be of use to anyone?

A question, not a dismissal.

It was written by man, but it is Gods word that has been inspired by the Holy Spirit.

That's a wonderful doctrine, ruined by an unfortunate lack of fact.

Thats the whole point of faith.

Here are some facts:

The people who wrote and feature in the new testament had little to gain by writing it. They had a lot to lose. Many of them died in horrible, vicious ways trying to defend their belief and spread the gospel message.

Could I ask what evidence you have to prove that the bible wasn't inspired by the Holy Spirit?

The fact that its creation led to numerous power struggles and the founding of a financial empire?

What does that prove? Man twisted Gods word for their own financial gains. It doesnt proved that the bible isnt Gods word.