A serious but startling statistical analysis by researcher Greg S. Paul suggests that if we include the unborn, more than 98 percent of Heaven’s inhabitants, some 350 billion, would be those who died before maturing to the point that they could voluntarily “accept the gift of salvation.” The vast majority of the heavenly host would be moral automatons or robots, meaning they never had moral autonomy and never chose to be there. Christian believers, ironically, would be a 1 to 2 percent minority even if all 30,000+ denominations of believers actually made it in.So...what's the point of this life, again? If we have these immortal souls that live eternally, why clothe them in physical form in this world at all? It seems that the vast populace of Hell is anyone who lives past the age of accountability (if there is such a thing), while the vast populace of Heaven is anyone who didn't make it that far.
The theological implications are huge. Christian theologians typically explain evil by arguing that this was the best of all possible worlds, the only way to create free will and to develop moral virtues (like courage, compassion, forgiveness and so forth), to make us more Christ-like and prepare us for Heaven. But if we run the numbers, it appears that God didn’t need the whole free will—sin—redemption thing to fill his paradise with perfect beings because no suffering, evil, or moral freedom is actually required as a prelude to glory.
Christians seem to believe that God is perfect and will not tolerate imperfection, and this is why Hell is a necessity. But on the other hand, do all wrongs involve God, or are there some "victimless wrongs"?
