"The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. - C. S. Lewis

The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre - wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race. Some people think the fall of man had something to do with sex, but that is a mistake...what Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they 'could be like Gods' - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come...the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.