Again thank you, we share alot in common on this subject.

My mother was raised Catholic but no longer practices and father was raised Christian, alot of my views come from them. But they raised me with a more eastern philosophy flavour. So it's coloured my thinking. Example: The body is a vehicle inhabited by the soul.

The soul is the eternal spiritual living entity, that which is the real us, that which was made in God's image in a qualitive sense not just a body image sense as well. By its nature the soul would be eternal too.

Bodies come and go all the time, what a man sow, that shall he also reap in bodies as well. I was taught that the same soul may inhabit all different kinds of bodies, but by God's mercy it's only in the human form that we are given enough intelligence to seek a way out of this hell, a chance to get to know god and hold him in our hearts.

The true devil would be our desires which keep us mired in the material world distracted from the open door right in front of us.

Do I believe in hell? Yes. I believe anywhere that God is not "present"(in the hearts of men) is by definition hell.

Have a good one friend, we may not agree on everything but we can agree in God, sometimes that's enough.