As a minister It is always a bit strange to receive veiled threats of damnation because I am not orthodox enough.
I don’t know a lot of things about the afterlife, but I do know with every cell of my being that, if heaven is really a gated community, I would be compelled by the teachings of Jesus to refuse heaven and minister to the suffering souls in hell.
How could I digest, much less enjoy, a heavenly banquet while tortured members of my human family were screaming in pain just beneath my feet down in hell?
And why would Jesus have taught the path of love if the wisest course were a cowardly indifference to the damned just to save our own skin?