“Adding up the numbers, approximately 81 billion modern humans have lived altogether. For every person alive today, twelve have died. If people really go to heaven after death, then the afterworld is a crowded place.”
Steve Olson, Mapping Human History. First posted here four years ago today.
Well, if you consult a couple of the world’s major religions:
1) A goodly portion of those souls are residing in Hell, or at least Purgatory.
OR
2) Most of those people are just reincarnations of those who came before. In other words, we keep recycling souls, and the people are just returning to Earth over and over, thus keeping the population of Heaven down.
I guess there’s only one way to find out, and I’m in no hurry to be certain of the answer!