That door is always open, someone could do that to me at any moment whether I do it to someone else or not.
The question is why shouldn't I do it, on moral grounds?
It is a combination of the social contract and an agreed-upon law enforcement protocol that is stopping people from doing this.
I think it speaks very poorly of any religion to say that a belief in God is the only thing stopping its followers from killing people, stealing, raping, etc.
Further, there are plenty of people who are agnostic or atheist who still have a strong moral compass and choose to do right by people without believing that there is neither eternal punishment or reward for their actions.
When you ask Christ to forgive you and enter your heart he will do so, and forgive all of your sins- past, present, and future. Christian doctrine dictates that you could spend your entire life doing the most vile irreparable acts humanly possible, and if you have an earnest and heartfelt conversion on your deathbed, and truly mean it then all of those sins are forgiven and you get to spend eternity singing God‘s praise in heaven. The Bible even states explicitly that all sin is equal in the eyes of God.
You wanna get even theologically weirder you start taking into consideration the Calvinistic beliefs that most protestants hold. A large part of Christians believe that letter to the church in Romans tells us that some people are born and will go to hell because that is God’s will. They have no choice in the matter, it has been determined by all knowing and all powerful God who created some vessels for destruction so that those he chooses to save have even more glory and prestige.
When I was still a believer, I was firmly in the Armenianist camp and didn’t buy the idea of predestination because i couldn’t wrap my head around the idea of a loving God letting somebody have a human lifetime on earth followed by an eternity of being tortured in hell and that individual not having any choice in the matter. I presented that quandary to a pretty famous pastor and speaker and he didn’t really have much of an answer for me. Nice guy, lots of faith.
Then again it is sin that separates us from God and sin that doesn’t let us into heaven. Whole lot of people in hell who sinned but never had a chance to hear the gospel. Lotta kids too.
Anyways, I’m rambling but I do appreciate kicking ideas and philosophies around together. We might not agree on things but I enjoy the respectful discourse