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heaven and hell has nothing to do religion, it is a psychological, not a geographical concept...
2 possibilities: either you are in hell now (aggression, hate, self-hate, misunderstandings, suffering...) or you are in heaven now (inner freedom, knowledge of who you are, love)...
one thing is for sure, you are not going anywhere, you are always now.

mirror only shows you how you look today, not how you looked yesterday or will look tomorrow.

you are always here...

fortunately heaven and hell are not geographical but psychological!

The Monk and the Samurai

Retold by John Porcino

There was once a samurai warrior who traveled to the distant home of an old monk. On arriving he burst through the door and bellowed, "Monk, tell me! What is the difference between heaven and hell?"

The monk sat still for a moment on the tatami-matted floor. Then he turned and looked up at the warrior. "You call yourself a samurai warrior," he smirked. "Why, look at you. You're nothing but a mere sliver of a man!"

"Whaaat!!" cried the samurai, as he reached for his sword.

"Oho!" said the monk. "I see you reach for your sword. I doubt you could cut off the head of a fly with that."

The samurai was so infuriated that he could not hold himself back. He pulled his sword from its sheath and lifted it above his head to strike off the head of the old monk. At this the monk looked up into his seething eyes and said, "That, my son, is the gate to hell." Realizing that the monk had risked his life to teach this lesson, the samurai slowly lowered his sword and put it back into the sheath. He bowed low to the monk in thanks for this teaching.

"My friend," said the monk, "That is the gate to heaven."

IIRC, those who sin, then repent or confess, are forgiven. Those who sin and do not repent/confess, can go to hell.

"IF" being the operative word. Christians are not followers of Jesus, because Jesus denied being "The Christ" (from the Greek "Kristos" meaning Messiah), during his lifetime.
The Nicean Council and the "apostle" Paul...(who never met Jesus)...made up the concept of hell. Jesus never spoke of it.
Do you know anything about NDEs? Near Death Experience is what happens when people die on the operating table and are revived. They report a state in which they are aware of everything happening and being said in the operating room, including things they could not see from the table. This state is the first transition of your spirit from the body to the astral plane. According to theory, you enter a contemplative state in which you review your life ,"Flashes before your eyes", and you see everything in a pure honest light.( Oh, man, I can't believe I was such a jerk to Mary that time...how could I have thought I was right?) You can either come to terms with your mistakes and move on to a higher stateof consciousness, or you get stuck there in guilt or denial. If it's bad enough, that's hell. You make it yourself, and no God could do it better.
God is more an energy with pattern and flow, checks and balances, than it is an all-seeing, all knowing personality.
Most Christians are looking for someone to set the rules and make it easy to understand the concepts behind all this, and are easily fooled into doing the wrong thing in their spiritual quest. I suggest reading The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. It describes how you can do the wrong thing by thinking you are doing right.

i believe if you repent and actually make and effort not to sin and you live for god ur good
but if u just ask god for forgiveness and dont mean it
i belive u are likely to go to hell due to u being unreal with god

All men have a choice either to want to be with God or to be independent of God. God says all is forgiven, please come home. But some would rather not.