Religion is not for people to be scared into believing. It is about having a relationship with God.
Now this may sound a little strange... but just imagine just for a second that you were a God. You had power over everything and you could control time and space just by speaking. You created a universe and one planet with life on it.
The goal of this was to have living beings that will look to you for guidance.
This would be the kind of relationship a man would have with a dog (not saying that you are a dog…
You wanted people to believe in you, but you didn’t want dictatorship over the people.
Now for a new topic… Heaven and hell.
God created heaven for the purpose that people that believe in him could spend eternity with him.
If everyone could go to heaven and not live a godly life, then what would be the point?
Plain and simple..
Hell is a place where you will go if you have chosen not to believe and you will have that fate as a punishment. (Kind of like a parent. If the child does not obey their parent then the child will be punished in some manner.)
Heaven is a place believers go when they die as a reward for believing.