Jack, your interesting answer gives rise to yet more questions. If rich persons are so unlikely to reach heaven, then the vast majority of folk in the West won't make it. We are fabulously rich in comparison to those in dire poverty in the Third World. And if heaven is a state of mind, what happens when the mind (ie the brain) dies? Does 'consciousness' live on somehow? Also, I have to say my pupils in primary school used to find the idea of 'adoring God' endlessly up there terrifically boring! I'm a churchgoer and try to be a good Christian, but sometimes even I can't get my head round a lot of this!