What determines weather or not someone goes to heaven.?

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What determines weather or not someone goes to heaven.?

What determines weather or not someone goes to heaven. Is it the persons religion or just ones actions. Then what about those who did not hear of that religion. What about those who were acting in what they thought was right and others thought wrong. What if what they did was wrong does that banish them forever one act. Or is there a time limit. This act means you are banished for x years. But what about many act genocide if years were put on that then there could be people serving more years then the existence of man. In evolutionary terms or not.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is not a philosophical question. This is a religious question. The question implies that the duality of right\wrong, heaven\hell exists and that there is a divine scorekeeper who tallies all deeds for all people. Then I guess there is some formula that calculates debits, credits, intent, venial and mortal weightings resulting in a final score which determines your "souls" fate. This whole process of course can be trumped if you play the jesus is my savior card which is a carte blanche ticket to heaven. Have you even considered an alternative to thinking in these monotheistic and deterministic terms?

Could be that there is no heaven. No Hell. That this is it. That the dirt nap signifies the end. Could be you are reincarnated as a deer tick Could be that your localized energy is subsumed into a greater super organism and that your localized awareness become transcendant and omniscient. Could be all folly.