There is a lot of gatekeeping in christianity. One of the reasons I tend to not be a fan of organized religion. Although I do think there are some positives. Faith should be on one's own terms.

My wife is fairly religious and takes the kids to church every week. I don't go. We have come to an agreement on how the kids will be raised as relates to religion/faith.

Last time I went to church was my daughter's first communion last year and I left extremely annoyed at having to listen to the priest lecture little kids for an hour about how they must put Jesus first in their lives and they have to coerce their parents to take them to church.

So this is a long winded way of saying there should be no rules as to whether you jumped through the appropriate hoops to get into heaven. I don't think God is sitting around thinking "nah you didn't believe hard enough, to hell with you". I think faith and trying to be a good person is more important than jumping through arbitrary hoops created by the church. But that is just my own opinion.