The real purpose of prayer is so that people can forgive themselves.

The value in following Jesus ' teachings is not to get tickets to Heaven but to enable people to live in a Heaven on Earth.

Simply accepting Jesus' role as the son of God gets people tickets to Heaven, provided that their belief is true. However, following Jesus' teachings to eschew excess wealth, forgo judgment, forgive people, and help the poor, the weak, and the oppressed enables people to live in a Heaven on Earth instead of a Hell of their own making.

Judgment and hoarding money put people into Hell and forgiveness and helping the poor frees them from Hell.