"Although in Christianity, the belief is only through Jesus can a man be saved, it's hard for me to fathom that anyone who leads a moral, charitable life will end up in "the hot house".
The question put is reasonable however in defining a "moral life" you have to ask "by who's standard?" Since man's standards are ever changing you can't rely on that measuring stick as a ticket to heaven. I'm sure plenty of people believe they are moral, people who by any rational perspective are hardly paragons of virtue. What was acceptable by some in the 1900's is now taboo in the 21st century.
Since God is pure truth and pure love, that is the standard we are judged by. As a Christian, I know that God's standards are an impossible measure that I cannot meet, no matter how much I try. Only through the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ am I considered blameless and acceptable to a holy God. It is if as at a capital trial, God is to sentence me for my crimes, but Christ stands up and accepts my just deserved punishment in my place instead of me.
God hasn't sent anyone to the hot house. Never has, never will. After a lifetime of rejection on earth, a God of love wouldn't force someone to spend eternity living with him. Instead of bending one's life to the will of God as Christians are supposed to saying "Thy will be done", he answers the sinners request - "my will be done", in heaven as it was on earth.
There are plenty of proofs for the existence of a creator. Even at 4x billion years, there isn't enough time or the right conditions to create life out of non-life. Does that disprove evolution? Not really. Micro-evolution is evident today with dogs, cats, birds, all living things changing within their species. Macro-evolution with dinosaurs becoming birds, men evolving from lower species, nope. Was the world created in 6,000 years (Young Earth'ers) or 6 epochs (the "Gap Theory") or 6 literal days? Yes. A creator God could have spoke the universe into existance any or all of these ways. It takes far more faith than I have to believe that as a result of random happenstance over time we have complex and spontaneous life.
Don't know it TI's server space will have enough room for this thread. We'll see. It's been a while since one was locked down.