Is Heaven Real?

There are many people today speaking of “going to heaven”, avoiding “hell” and all the things that one should do or has to do to be able to “get to heaven” and yet is heaven real? One has to, first of all look at all that’s being said about heaven and what it is to decide if heaven is real. There is no proof that anyone can give to another to prove that heaven is real. No one has been there and returned to give us evidence of it in a form and fashion that we’d accept as “proof”. It has to be a personal decision of belief based on a person’s individual understanding and experience. What to be discussed here is what some people claim to believe and why they really don’t, yet want others to believe what they can’t even bring themselves to believe. After all, that’s what makes heaven real isn’t it?

For so long now, we’ve based our teachings and beliefs on the words and understanding of a few men or women who have claimed some “corner on the market” in wisdom, yet while professing to believe that God is the only All knowing being that ever lived. So with those that profess to know God, and know about heaven and that it’s real, and should be the desired destination of all mankind, great efforts should be made by men to get there, yet is their heaven real? One has to ask. So let’s take a closer look at what’s being said about heaven… and what’s not and see what can be decided about heaven.

First, those that believe there is a heaven believe it’s a place of no more tears, where there is no violence, no evil and no pain. It’s a place where there is a pearly gate in which a saint will meet you when you arrive, and where the streets are paved with gold, and there is rivers flowing with living waters. It’s a place that you must live your life in a specific way to ever be qualified to enter into in the first place, and it’s a place that you can quickly and easily miss if you don’t do things in your life a certain way. Yet, it’s a place they will tell you should be desired diligently as an eternal destination, yet do they really believe what they claim? I think not. It’s clear to see that those that believe in this heaven are those that are the ones that are trying with all diligence to avoid it. They are claiming it as a place you get to go to when you die, yet when they are faced with death, they avoid it with all diligence and at all costs. Willing to spend their very life’s earnings, and worth and all the “blessings” they have been able to acquire here in this place at the hand of God to avoid going to the “heaven” they so quickly claim to be so wonderful and the place of eternal destination for all to desire. So why don’t they desire it? Why is it that those claiming to believe so much in heaven and that it’s a real place are avoiding it like the plague? Why do they claim it as an eternal destination for those that have lived their lives according to the things of God, yet when they, claiming to be children of God, are stricken with a terminal death, or when death takes a child, or teenagers, or death snatches a father or mother of small children, there is so much grief for those that have by their own admissions gone on to “heaven”? Could it be that those claiming this wonderful place to be real, and to be the desired destination of all people really don’t believe it exists? Could it be that they don’t want to go there or have death take them because they don’t really believe it’s real or is it because they are afraid that there is something in their lives that would not guarantee them arrival at those pearly gates? What is the real answer? Is heaven real?

We see those claiming heaven is real go to a church, funeral home, or other place and grieve openly over a person that’s been sitting on the church pew with them for years.. and those that have been part of their families and communities for years. We see them paying thousands of dollars to have services to have the body of the person buried and to have a time for all that knew the person to come and grieve over the death that was the instrument that got that person arrival into the heaven that was so diligently taught to desire.. why is it? Is heaven real? Could it be? Why aren’t the actions of those that claim it’s real supporting their own beliefs?

It’s clear to see that even those that claim so readily that heaven is real and is the place that all should desire to arrive at upon death, don’t believe it exists themselves. They don’t believe that when a person dies that they go to heaven, or there wouldn’t be times of grieving but times of celebration. They don’t believe that their own fellow members of their churches, or religious organizations get to heaven when they die or there wouldn’t be grief, but celebration. So why isn’t it happening… it’s simple.. even those claiming to believe that heaven is real don’t believe it.. they don’t live their lives confirming the words of their mouths, and they are trying to get others to change their lives, believe in heaven as the final eternal reward of those that believe, yet they themselves don’t. Yet it is those that so openly claim that all should believe in heaven, and should desire it and live to arrive there that go out to gather others to come join them, to get to the place that they don’t even believe is real.. and the place which they are trying with all that’s available to them to avoid. It is those same people who wonder why others don’t believe, and won’t believe! Why would they? You can’t convince anyone to believe something that you don’t believe yourself! It’s time to believe or stop claiming to believe and therefore leading others astray based on your own unbelief!

Is heaven real? One would truly have to wonder if anyone looks at the lives and actions of those claiming so adamantly that it is! Make the decision yourself, based not on the actions of others or the attempt of others to convince you, after all, it’s your eternal destination that’s in question! Who in their right mind would want to base their eternal destination or the reality of it based on anyone words… it’s something that one must decide by ones own experience, and understanding. If heaven is real, and it’s the place of eternal destination for those that God has chosen, why wouldn’t you simply ask God about it, and either take His word on it, or decide that it’s not “real”? It’s your decision to make, it’s your belief that you’ll either have or not have, and it shouldn’t be based on the mere words of anyone other than God!

So with that, you are encouraged not to believe anything, including whether heaven is real or not based on anyone… even those proclaiming and professing that it is.. and trying to encourage others to join them there, while avoiding going there when the opportunity to do so comes to them.

Think about it! What do “believers” really believe??