Can I still go to heaven even if I do not believe Christianity (believe in Christianity) is of God or Jesus, yet I am very obedient to God's two greatest commandments?

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It may come as a shock to those of us born and raised on Christian mythology, but not everyone who believes in God, the afterlife, and heaven are Christians. There is a wide plethora of different ideas of what grants your ‘ticket to heaven’.

And if you take a lot of time and study and reflection on the Holy Bible, you can discern three very important things:

Jewish law came in 3 varieties, moral, judicial, and ritual. Only the moral laws are relevant to non-Jews.
What was given to the world by Jesus is very far from what is considered to be the Christian religion today. Christian religion derives a great deal of it’s ‘stuff’ from events that happened after the events of the New Testament.
At no point does Jesus ever explicitly state what one must do to get into Heaven, and indeed Jesus scoffed at the very legalism that the question entails.

Indeed, there’s good reason to conclude, from scripture, that Hell is a figurative place and that God promised eternal life to all. Nothing is needed in order to claim your birthright. There’s no reason not to understand Jesus as painting Hell figuratively while Heaven is concrete.

Indeed, the word ‘Hell’ is never used once in the Bible, instead other words describing other kinds of afterlife are used. It often appears to outsiders that certain Christians made up the idea of eternal torment out of whole cloth and mistranslations.

The Roman Catholic Church defines Hell as a state of self-exclusion from God. Notice that this paints Hell as a state and not a place. It’s not anything you do that causes you to find yourself in the state of Hell, but rather it’s that you refuse to accept God’s love.

It’s also important to realize that Jesus didn’t bring a religion to the world. He left that to Peter. Instead Jesus brought a message. As a prophet, his entire job was to tell the world they’ve been looking at this God business all wrong. The stories of his ministry all serve to show people how the Jews of the day were misinterpreting their covenant with the Lord. It’s a spiritual understanding of one’s relationship with the deity that’s important, not one’s legalistic status.

It’s not following human laws that punches your ticket to Heaven. You can break them all and still enjoy a very close relationship with the Lord. Your relationship to the Lord is yours and yours alone. It’s up to you to decide to get closer or push yourself away from closeness to God.