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Hi, I'm glad you feel comfortable enough to ask your questions, they are welcome and hopefully betweeen the lot of us, we will be able to explain our views in a manner that is understandable.
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"ReadyToRapture" {R2R} is very right in what she has written, she also provided you with awesome links that prove the accuracy of the bible and the problems with other religion - I've been through them often.

Also, like "R2R" I base everything on the Bible, to me it is God's wisdom and teaching everything must line up biblically for me. Yes, the bible is quite clear on the subject of reincarnation and hell.

Matthew 7:13
"You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose the easy way.

Jesus is the narrow gate, by putting your heart, your life, your faith and your trust in Jesus you are entering through the narrow gate. When this verse says "the highway to hell is broad" and many choose this way, it is remarking on the people that go through life trying to have salvation through works and false religion when the true Living God is everywhere, there is teaching just about everywhere if you are truly seeking God, you will find Him - He is everywhere.

When you think about reincarnation, {I used to believe this too, I use to believe "whatever goes" all religion was worthy} Do you really want to be reincarnated as a worm? or slug? Sit back and think of all the lives you could go through, IF reincarnation was true. When I thought of if logically, I found it made little or no sense.

I also know to some that it makes no sense that a loving God would send a person to hell. Well that same loving God has already provided a way to save your soul, through Jesus Christ in this life. He has given you the power to choose the truth, and the freedom is all within that truth.

For me, I was a skeptic - because it sounded too good to be true. Because of my past circumstances. I had experienced some horrible times before I put my faith in Jesus Christ. Those experiences caused me to hold back. But one day, with the help from God I put the smallest amount of faith in Him, I immediately noticed a change. Not necessarily in my circumstances but in me. I had peace. Peace that I had never experienced before. That peace and contentment has just grown over the years because I know in this world there is no peace without God {I had experienced it} But knowing that God never changes, never leaves and is always with me has changed everything, because that I know that no matter what I experience or go through God is there.

Please ask more question if you have them, or bring any concerns you have forward - we will do our best to help.

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Romans 10:5-17
For Moses wrote that the law's way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands. But the way of getting right with God through faith says, "You don't need to go to heaven" (to find Christ and bring him down to help you). And it says, "You don't need to go to the place of the dead" (to bring Christ back to life again). Salvation that comes from trusting Christ--which is the message we preach--is already within easy reach. In fact, the Scriptures say, "The message is close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart."
For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. As the Scriptures tell us, "Anyone who believes in him will not be disappointed. "Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They all have the same Lord, who generously gives his riches to all who ask for them. For "Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
But not everyone welcomes the Good News, for Isaiah the prophet said, "Lord, who has believed our message?" Yet faith comes from listening to this message of good news--the Good News about Christ.