why doesn't everyone just pick the religion with the best heaven?

Question

The Jews, Christians and Muslims all originated about the same time in the same place, but the people who promoted the religions were from differing tribes so it would stand to reason that they would have different prophets. Since we're so much futher advanced today then we were 2000 years ago, seems logical to do a side by side comparison and just pick the religion that offers the most in the afterlife (since that's where it really counts anyway). Right?

Answer 1

Interesting idea. We could have a sort of "Pop Idol", and each week a religion could get voted out.

Sorry people, that was meant to be humour. I am not, in any legally binding sense, making fun of you or your deeply felt profound beliefs. Honest.

Answer 2

What offers the best afterlife? A completely free realm where I can do anything I want? Including preventing you from doing what you want? Or should we pick and choose the best parts from each religion and create our own heaven and our own religion? Or what if someonedoesn't want an afterlife? What if they want this world and then death is the end? Too many variables to pick which has the "best" afterlife.

Answer 3

Christianity is, if you believe Jesus was the Messiah, the fulfillment of Judaism, and Islam views itself as the correction of the errors in Judaism and Christianity via the angel Gabriel to Muhammed. Between those three, it's only one God, but with quite different conceptions of his nature and how to obey him rightly and to be forgiven, so it's not about which heaven, rather, what is truth, how do we know, and the question of how internally consistant each set of beliefs is. Most Americans prefer, apparently, to choose their beliefs based on "what best allows me to live, here and now, in a way that pleases me?"

Answer 4

There is only one Heaven for the saved people.

Religion has nothing to do with it. No one, yes no one that is depending on religion to get them to Heaven. They will not make it.

There is only one way.

John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:43-45 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter)
John 6:65
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

Answer 5

I think this seems a little a little one-sided. There are only three examples of religion up there, yet there are thousands of religion. As for everyone picking, some people don't believe in a heaven or hell, so you can't really answer this question.

Answer 6

that's not a good enough reason to pick a religion most people believe what their parents believe and most people believe what they choose to believe as they get older which is why some people are muslim some are jewish some are christian some are satanists some are atheists some are agnostic some are buddhists some are confucianists some are hindus and so forth and so forth you have to decide what seems and feels right to you

Answer 7

Well, then there'd be too many Muslims (with the whole 'fifty virgins' thing), but I never buy into that. People generally believe in what their parents believe in and that's that. Sad, but true.

Answer 8

Because, that would be parallel to the "bad" angels who are "sitting on the fence", so to speak, waiting to see the outcome of the debate, before they jump in.

Answer 9

Isn't that what most of us have done? Picked the package with the best benefits as we saw it?

Answer 10

Beer fountains and strippers. FSM forever.