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I can't answer this question for you. I don't think anybody can give you a definative answer. So the best I can do is highlight the the folly of trying.

I personnally don't think we are talking about a physical torment but one of the spirt that is likened to a physical torment. I think that at the moment of physical death all the slights and transgression you have ever done come back to you. If you have acknowledged that you are not perfect, have transgressed and atoned by saying your sorry for them they don't cause you torment. Otherwise they will plague your soul forever, because you can't let them go.

Now my concept of Christianity may not be correct but it is the only thing I have. I don't believe in worshipping Jesus as an idol on the cross. But I believe what he meant, is to believe in was what he said was the truth. He really didn't talk about himself but of his Father in Heaven. believe in the Father in heaven. To prove that what he said was true he put his life where his mouth was and stepped onto the cross willingly. So in that sense you believe in Jesus saying who he really was is true.

The sacrafice of Christ was his physical demostration that what he said was true. What he said is that if you ask forgiveness for your transgressions you will be forgiven, forgive your self for them. That act of contrition on your part frees you to be in a more peacfull place within yourself. Since you know you will always transgress you have to acknowledge that fact and say your sorry as the situation might require. I do not believe that Christianity gives you a free pass once and for all, but is more of a process and a template to follow. In following that template you can remain at peace with yourself and once you ask for forgivness you tend to follow that template from there on, which gives you everylasting peace.

Tempation is for you to do what you feel isn't really the right thing to do. Perhaps you might call it the easy way out. Now that is where I come in.