I am not a Christian but I am pretty sure the real Christ wouldn’t want you to follow Him to receive a reward (heaven) or to avoid a punishment (hell). The heaven must be in the following and the hell must be in the rejection itself. Otherwise, Christianity would just be another game.

I say this only because I respect Christianity as a genuine path to God. I am not a Christian because I don’t think it is the ONLY path. But I believe there are real Christians who are following a real path, even if they are a small minority of those who claim to be such.