How do you know there is a real heaven?

Answer 1

It is very difficult to explain something that cannot been seen, touched, heard or felt with our five senses. Faith is nothing more than the belief in something intangible. For those who need proof, The Bible, as an accurate historical text, is unrivaled.

Answer 2

For there to be a heaven (or a hell), there has to be a God, who can ordain a reward for those who believe he exists. Moreover, for there to be a heaven or a hell, it ought to have been a doctrine of Judaism from the very beginning of monotheism at least. Yet, heaven and hell as places of punishment and reward only entered Judaism during and after the Babylonian Exile. Prior to this, the Bible only speaks of sheol, a shadowy place of semi-consciousness with neither reward nor punishment.

How could you know? All we have is a vague list of pious promises meant to make the faithful more faithful in the hope of getting the nebulous rewards that religion so confidently promises.

I believe there is neither heaven nor hell - I do not need to believe in a fictional afterlife out of fear that my eventual death will be the end for me. I do not even need to believe in a God or a saviour.