Is heaven really real or is it just a big lie?

Answer 1

Opinion

The postulation that there is a Heaven and/or Hell is a common motif in religious belief. These locations vary in nature from the ancient Greek afterlife of a rather dreary wandering around in gloom to the rollicking beer fest that Viking heroes enjoyed in preparation for Ragnarok. The Christian or Islamic interpretation of an ease filled eternal existence for the good and a torment filled eternity for the bad is common.

Most atheists and agnostics have noticed that there is a lot of speculation and affirmation based on belief on these issues (see Dante's "The Divine Comedy" or Twain's "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" for examples) but a dearth of hard evidence. Based on the lack of proof the answer would be: No

Opinion

Yes, there is, depending on what you believe in. There is Heaven for people who do not sin, or for people who are truly sorry for there sins. Hell is a place for people with a lot of sins (considering everyone sins at some point in their lives). There is Limbo, which is technically earth, it is a place for people who have not been baptized. There is also Purgatory, where God will made up his mind where you belong.

Opinion

There is a Heaven and Hell and it's your choice where you end up.

Opinion

Heaven and hell are believed to be real by many people in the world. There is no definitive way to answer the question, as we have no proof of what happens after a person dies.

Opinion

By stating that there is no proof of a heaven and/or hell means that they do not exist does not make it so. For the people that read and study The Bible over thousands of years, from the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation, the bible has been proven incredibly accuate historically and spiritually. Furthermore, Jesus listed the events that would take place before He returns and judges the world, warning to us 'be ready'. Those world events have already occured with only a few exceptions, meaning we are in what the bible calls the 'end times'. The odds that these events could be a coincedence is astronomical.
in the metaphorical sense, indeed i believe so. this questions is a warzone waiting to happen. i believe there is something greater but not heaven or hell. simply put we believed heaven was in the clouds until we could fly above them. then perhasp it was space until we traveled its expanse. so where is heaven? then we drilled to the deepest regions of earth to find more rock, wheres hell?....on that note check out "sounds of hell" Google and interpret it as you like, its really cool or spooky. In either event science cant provide awnsers to existence but god cant provide awnsers to his devout disciple who kill to purify the land.

be a good person in heart and you don't need a road map to heaven,

kill in gods name (abortion clinic bombings anyone?) and go to heaven?

somewhere, somehow, i believe moses didnt have Verizon ("can you hear me now")

Answer 2

"The world may never know"... that's for you to decide... if you believe then yes, if not, no.

either way heaven is real!.....only if you believe in God will you be able to see it.

AnswerHeaven is most certainly empirically real according to the witness of a God who cannot lie.

It is not any less or more true if I disbelive or believe in it. One day everyone becomes a believer - on the day of their death. Unfortunately many will have chosen by their own free will not to go to heaven but to hell.

Heaven would also not be heaven if there was no such place as hell, since something amazingly good has no meaning if there is not also something opposite-a place of eternal torment.

Most certainly it is a real place althopugh we do not see it now -just as we do not see many things which we nevertheless accept as fact.

Answer 3

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, and punishment for those who don't believe in him, and perhaps also for those who do wrong. So the starting point is that there is no evidence that God even exists.

In any case, 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. If Judaism learnt of heaven and hell from the Persians, does that mean that the Persian god, Ahura Mazda, is the one true god?

Saying that heaven and hell exist does not make it so. This questions asks for an objective answer and the evidence tells that they do not really exist.

Answer 4

Yes. The existence of a spiritual place or places in which the souls of the dead are treated in accordance with their behavior when alive (reward or punishment), is a tradition of mankind, which finds expression (in differing details) in various religions. It cannot be conclusively proven as long as we're alive; and that's the whole point: God tests us as to whether we will live in a way that demonstrates that we're aware of His presence, even though His presence is not readily visible.
We hold it to be evident that an infinitely wise Creator, whose wisdom is vastly manifest (for example) in the wonders of our bodies, would not be so unwise as to neglect unfinished business. If a tyrant "escapes judgment" by swallowing a painless poison, to our mind it is axiomatic that his tribulations have just begun. God is just (Deuteronomy 32:4).See also:

The afterlife in Judaism