Belief

You identify a serious judicial problem. No matter how you draft any law.

Somebody may well have the intention to do something but can they be guilty of doing something if they don't actually do it. At the very last second they change their mind.

Consider anybody who lives their whole life not believing in God, ignores the ten commandments, because there is no hell. They just die and get eaten by the worms, there is no soul.

However, at the moment of death there is a revelation and they sudeenly believe in the God who they had ignored their whole life. Does a true christian think that the person will not enter heaven, they did not intend to live an evil life, it is just that they did not fear retribution, in the sense that they would go to hell.

In the meantime the good christian lives his whole life thinking, believing that there is a God, and lives his life in accordance with the rules. However, there is no God and heaven does not exist. What an absolute waste, if he thought that the whole purpose of mankind on earth was to behave in such a way that he would go to heaven. Great for a structured well behaved society but what about the pleasures of life.