Did any heretics burned to death actually go to heaven?

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Did any heretics which were burned to death for opposing the foreign, corrupt Vatican ever go to heaven? In my view, yes. The scholar who translated the Bible into the Engish language, Tyndale, was burned at the stake for being a bad Italian Catholic/for translating the Bible into English but I believe Tyndale is in heaven, sitting perhaps at the left hand of God. Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of God. Secrets of The Dead . Battle for the Bible | PBS
Through the stories of John Wycliffe, William Tyndale and Thomas Cranmer -- the brave reformers who paid the ultimate price to bring the Bible to the people ... www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seaso ... index.html - (Google)

Thousands of heavenbound Christians were burned to death by Rome. In catholic teaching, it is considered heresy to say that salvation is by grace alone (Eph. 2:8-10), the catholic church was and is all about controlling the people, getting them to do their will instead of God's. Christians who professed faith-based salvation--true Christianity were considered heretics and were burned at the stake.

The "Church" of Rome has all kinds of ugly secrets, i was catholic until i turned 17 or so, then i woke up. I follow the teachings of the Bible, not the teachings of a man in a pointy white hat.

The point is, nor you nor I nor anyone knows who gets heaven. We can make more or less educated guesses about some people. So?

Maybe if all goes well you and Tyndale and Thomas More and Pope Clement can discuss it.

Bear in mind anyway that heresy just has to do with dissent and pretty much [I try to avoid talking in absolutes] anyone who has ever put down a heretic is a heretic to someone else.

All we are told is - we are going to be surprised and shocked at who does and does not make the cut.

Let me phone God and ask... he says yeah!

lol God only knows..

Oldie time Lutheran that I am, I certainly think so. Plenty of our guys got roasted for their convictions.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Maybe... Difficult to speculate... St. Joan maybe.... St Charles Lwanga was burned as a heretic... Not by the Church though.

As an evidence-based believer in ghosts, hence in future existence without having to go anywhere, I agree that heaven is not a real thing, and indeed who would want to have to go there or could feel any joy there if there was a country on Earth that you loved but had spent your life unjustly exiled from? This swung me against the heaven idea as a kid. So I place all these martyrs hangin' around anywhere they choose to be throughout all of infinity, or anywhere they choose to be still here on Earth.

Though strongly not agreeing with atheism's view on where we go, I've gotta share this really clever atheist cartoon. Showing different types of Christian arguing over who goes to heaven, and how there's no revealed right answer to be discovered in religious folks' arguings over each other's falsehood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0A_iF1B3k0

Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) was canonized by the church after they originally burned her at the stake as either a witch or heretic. There's more to the story, but she was executed under color of the church. It didn't take long for the next pope to order an inquiry, and an eventual exoneration---which didn't do her a lot of good after being ashes for about 25 years.