How does God decide who goes to heaven and who goes to hell?

Heaven is real. "Hell", the Grave is real. The Devil is real.

Here is the fallacy of what you have been taught. First that "Hell" is a place of torture. The Hebrew and Greek words were understood at the time of writing to mean the Grave, to which ALL people go to at death.

Second, that Devil is in charge of this place of torment called "Hell". While it is true it was his actions that brought death to mankind, he has no power over the dead. Third, that Heaven is the place that God intended all humans to go to IF they passed the tests.

This fallacy is cancelled when the Bible is truly examined. Starting at Genesis 1 and the creation of man, the blessing that God gave them was NOT to suffer and die, but to have authority over the earth, and to raise a family and fill the earth with their perfect children. There are NO words in that blessing that even suggest that if Adam and Eve had obeyed, that they would go to heaven.

Now, down to your last phrase "just made up to control people". What you have been taught by the churches was used as a " Weapon of Mass Destruction" if you did not obey the priests, who claim to be able to protect you from that "Hell" they preach, as long as you are loyal to them and support their religions. The truth about what God had purposed for mankind would free people from the tyranny of the priests, and give those people hope of everlasting life.

That is why for centuries the Church banned lay people from having the Bible in their own language. This truth would overturn their "empire" that they had in a religious sense. So, if you desire to look more into what the Bible really teaches about the purpose God has for us, and the true future that awaits us, I put two links below.

The first one is the introduction into a study of what the Bible says. The second directly addresses what happens when we die. If you have any questions, my email is open.

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