I have a friend who is a pastor and he says that based on his studies there is nothing anywhere to indicate that there are any gates around heaven or that anyone is unwelcome. It's actually that people wind up in hell because they don't think heaven sounds appealing at all.
In my experience, that seems to be the case with most things. I thought it applied particularly well to the people I have seen struggling with health issues who indicate that giving up the foods that are likely the source of their problems sounds horrible, so they continue to struggle. But this is really an even better example.
