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My friend John, who is now teaching in the USA, essentially answered your question when I enquired about the nice old grandma who helps when she can and never insults anyone, where is she going when she dies.
His reply was that she is rancid with sin until she accepts Jesus into her heart, it doesn't matter how nice you are, or how much you help others, everyone is tainted with sin until you accept Jesus' sacrifice and repent.
I worked in a CofE School for a bit and we had some Candian christians visit the school and put on a play about faith and belief. The play was about a plane crash and what would happen to the people on the plane. The Muslim went to hell, the missionaries who spent 40 years do good works in the 3rd world went to hell, the murderer who prayed to Jesus as the plane went down went to heaven.
To say the kids were unimpressed is putting it in mild terms.