You can't ensure that you are going to go to heaven. For all you know whatever someone says like 'Do this and you will go to heaven' could be the complete opposite for all you know. For all you know you could be going the other way and you can't stop it no matter what you do. I personally would like to believe that there is a happy place at the end (or is it the end?) as its a nice thing to believe in. But then there are also these other questions like what would you look like? Say you were 78 and you died would you look the same as you do the now or when you were 10 or 78. How would your mother and father look? I am not hoping that there is or isn't a heaven and hell but I do know that on this earth I'm going to be as best a person as I can be. I'll help that old woman across the street. I'll help that man put his shopping onto the conveyor belt.I hope that you can find solitude within yourself. The Bible says you can know you are going to heaven. Romans 10:9-10, and the small book of I John are good places to start. Remember John 3:16: For God so loved the world that whoever believes on Him should not perish but have eternal life. That is a promise we can grab onto. Believing in this case means to make it a lifestyle, not just mental assent that changes from day to day. Our life should show the change if God is in it. That is why there are so many hypocrites, because people just pay God lip service but don't live what they believe. This is true not just of Christianity but many areas of life. Study the New Testament and there are many references to help you know you will go to heaven. Search it out for yourself, if you are really interested. God has the answer for every need of your life, but we don't always like the answers he gives, because we are stuck in the rut of sin and don't want to change. See the book of Romans in the New Testament.
they made sure they would get to heaven by confessing their sins.
stop being stupid
You cannot. I know for sure that I will not be let into heaven because I do not believe there is a heaven.
Make sure it doesn't hit you when it returns, for heaven's sake!
I am sure there are many popes in Heaven but am equally sure that there are a number of popes burning in hell.
yes
They went on pilgrimages to make sure that God would send them to heaven instead of hell.
Sure
Sure
Sure why not
Martin Luther didn't determine people got to heaven, but the Catholic Church was the entity that determined who got into heaven. If they excommunicated a person that was taken away. People were in great fear of being excommunicated by the church.
sure kid pets go to heaven... its all whatever you believe in.... sure kid pets go to heaven... its all whatever you believe in....