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A:Many religions have some form of afterlife, although the hades of the Greeks and Romans and the sheol of the Hebrews were places of no great joy. The pagans believed that especially worthy individuals could go up among the stars, although this is not to be thought of as heaven in the Abrahamic context.

The first religion to develop the concept of heaven, as a paradise where all who had lived good lives would go, was the Zoroastrian religion of the ancient Persians. This appears to have been passed on to the Jews during the Babylonian Exile, then from the Jews to the Christians and then finally to Islam.

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