You don't have to die to see God.

Many mystics for generations including Jesus, whether he was a real man or not, have preached about their "Lord God."  Ancient Indian Mystics or Gurus have practiced the art of meditation in order to connect consciously with God. As someone who has achieved this briefly and with minimal training, I can attest that all humans today can access God through still, quiet meditation. Unfortunately some people are so mentally indoctrinated to the material that they cannot achieve the connection, but it doesn't mean that it's impossible.

We are all connected through the mind of God, it grants us all the ability to remain conscious in this and all lives; without God, we do not exist. So, understand where your consciousnes comes from, it is channelled from God energy or unified field of consciousness, into the brain and down the spinal cord, electrifying both hemispheres of the brain and activates your central nervous system through the spine. The main source of this energy is said to reside in the heart and is called the "Soul". If you teach yourself how to quiet the mind and clear the body of energy blockages. All humans can reverse the polarity of this conscious energy, redirecting it out of the body and into the dimension where God resides. 

There anyone can see and communicate with God, you don't have to die to understand what or who God is, you just need to clear your mind and perfect the meditation technique. Paramahansa Yogananda is a prime example of this and can be Googled and learned about.

The truth is, we humans have become lazy and want to be hand feed all the answers, some questions like, "where do we come from and what is our purpose?", can be answered; one just has to do the work of focussing and controlling our emotional states, to quiet the mind to the frequency of the one God vibration that enables any and all of us to commune directly with God.