Ali, I think Ioan will put it differently, but you will understand him better. You know, sometimes I joke a bit with people of my own faith, but I respect people of all faiths; the beautiful people of FAITH. Faith doesn't mean the same thing as science or even truth, but someday it will. So, I will wait for God to correct the way to keep faith and truth. Have a great day. Peace.

Heaven and hell do start here. We need to free our mind and to go the way of heaven and we need to avoid the traps.

Christianity is about sanctifying your mind and body and going to heaven.
I do remember another story when somebody wento India to aquire powers. He did aquire powers but coming back a monk told him that he aquired actually some devils. When yoga became a fashion in Romania, many people went to psihiatry hospitals. Hindu or yoga do consider a crazyness or demon possesion as a holy thing but christianity consider theis as being dangerous. This is to say that I can not put equal sign between a religion that helps people go back to Heaven, and a religion that destroys people. I don't think religions are equal. Unfortunately many people in West do get accustomized with idol worshiping mind set hidden behind budhist and hindu yoga mind set.

We do need to help hindus and budhist and other humans that worship idols to avoid chains that await them. Hindu and budhist thinking presented as "science" or as "entertainment" did make large inroads into USA and Western thinking. War against creation through reduction of population to 500 million, abortion which is crime presented as "right" I do think that are the work of devils against creation and humans should unite against it. Good people can buy into this deceit unfortunatelly. Also the work of the devil is to convince people he does not exists

Prayer and the sign of cross as accumosted in christianity are very powerfull. I do think that even outside the christianity prayer is very powerfull. There is a story about a person that spend his life on budhist monesteries and that went to a holy man , monk. He was able to cut the stone by hitting it or by concentration . When the monk made the sign of the cross over one stone, the stone could not be broken since the devils could not tach it. Also Hindu speak about spiritual being - I think they are devils - that want to take control of human kind. There was a diplomat that said about those beings sometime called extraterestrial, UFO that "help" people. Did anyone think made the sign of cross on them?

Where do I think that we are today? Today we do have the original church as established by Jesus, the Orthodox Church. This church has a way to heaven from this life, there are people that visted heaven in their life, including Apostle Paul. One wing is prayer and another wing is fasting keeping some rules. There are other gifts: healing, prophecysing, levitation, walking on water, speaking with God , speaking with Jesus, speaking with St Mary, seeing angels, seeing souls. Even if idol worshipping has some gifts that I think that are with the help of devil --levitation, healing, prophecysing they don't have the way to heaven because even the devils can not do that.

God destroyed creation but saved Noah and his family toghether with animals. Devil tought people to do idolatry and become devil worshipers. Today we do have budism and hindu including yoga that are idolatry, putting people in chains. Abraham speaks with God being blessed. Moses speaks with God and helps jewish people out of slavery, and creates judaism as taught by God . However as many prophets did prophecized and jews do believe today there will be a Messiah that will redeem human race. Even the time of Messiah is prophecised and is the time of Jesus. Jesus came and sacrifice himself on the cross giving baptism and confession and Eucharist as a way for sin forgiveness.

Watchers -fallen angels - tought man to do:
"And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. 3. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. 4. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven"

Peace in this war can be achieved earlier if Lucifer do renounce his proud. He did lost a lot from it and continues to loose, becoming from the first angel the last. Looking as a chess game this are the main moves.
God created angels and man. Lucifer refused to help man. Lucifer made man eat forbiden fruit. God expelled man from Eden. Man asked God for forgiveness. Devil tought Cain to kill Abel by sending two demons , first murder. Enoch writes books helping creation, and because he was loved by God he became an angel never dying.

So we did discuss about peoples war, how about several lines on spiritual war. This is what I think. We do know about creation and expulsion of man from Eden Garden . Details on pseudepigrapha com. There anyone can see books of Adam and Eve. Don't know their history but they do match with Bible in general having more detailed information. So we do know that in our Universe there are two forces. On one side is God, the creator, Jesus Son of God, Mary, good angels, saints and good people and on the other side are the fallen angels, the former Watchers angels that had children with women, and deceived people.