What is the Purpose of Heaven?

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Religions typically concern themselves with the afterlife, or with life after death. A number of religions offer their adherents entry into a special Heaven, with non-adherents (and perhaps non-sincere or non-predestined adherents) consigned to everlasting torment in Hell.

What was the Deity's purpose in creating Heaven for those who were informed of and believed in His Plan of Salvation?

Is it just so that He can spend eternity being flattered, and being entertained with non-stop Hymns of Praise and Harp music? Or, what is God really up to?

For those of you who think that God is a fairy tale and Heaven a bunch of silliness: imagine yourself as God. Why did you create Heaven to house your human admirers, and what are you going to do with them?

If I were God, I would set up a busy and interesting afterlife that everyone gets to go to.

It wouldn't be monotonous, it would be another large and intricate world just like this one, but with some differences to make it more interesting. People would spend their endless time building magnificent pet projects, becoming experts in a chosen field, having fun with friends visiting other people's magnificent pet projects, and working as teams to explore huge uncharted areas filled with wonderful surprises. I would make it so that people naturally live forever in this afterlife but can decide to stop living whenever they want. (After they have given a century's notice, to avoid rash decisions.)

This is just example #2564 of how your average bloke on the street could do a much better job at being God than God apparently does.

As God, how would you personally benefit from such a Heaven?

Lol I haven't even worked out how God benefits from Humans or Earth.

Supposedly, if I assert to know, beyond any doubt, that God loved me so much, that He gave me His only begotten Son to die a horrible death that I might spend eternity with Him either after death or after rapture, then I am saved and my place is fully reserved. If I am correct, then I get something out of the deal. I don't really see what God is really up to, if this scenario is correct, or why God would bother going to all this trouble. Just entertainment, I suppose. I can't think of a better reason.

God wanted an efficient way to compute infinite series. As a low-tech omnipotent being, who understands times very differently from us, he created a series of species with different growth rates, accumulated the dead ones in some random place, kept a complete record of their ever-growing dead population at different times; and if he wanted the result of this or that series after so many iterations, he would find the "heaven" population of the adequate species at the adequate time. But, lo! the results were inaccurate! so he decided to sanitize his results by arbitrarily putting a number of the dead population is another random place -- which we would call "sinners".

The religious right teaches that heaven will be pure capitalism.

Anyway, according to the rich, there has to be both rich people and poor people in heaven.

I always wondered one thing about the religious view of heaven. It's supposed that people goes to hell/heaven for the whole eternity. So, if you have been a good boy for 70 years then you can go to heaven, be and a**hole for the whole eternity and enjoy the heaven nonetheless?

This is better than a life contract as civil servant...