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No, unless we're all just photons splattering on an event horizon. So no. We have too much mass to achieve the speed of light.
Heaven and hell are far more likely to be synthetic states of mind in our own brains, rather than distinct and discreet places in the cosmos. We have created the means of our own salvation or our own damnation (or perhaps even both simultaneously) in our brains out of fear and uncertainty to impose an illusory order on a chaotically structured cosmos. Heaven and hell can metaphorically be peered at through the eyes of people racked by real fear and an self-generated hope.
"Ecce homo perditionis et paradisi creator." (Behold Man, creator of perdition and paradise.) Not "Deus Vult" but "Voluntas hominis". (Not God's Will but the will of men.". Apologies for my bad Latin.
Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
You're thinking three dimensionally, though. In four dimensional spacetime, isn't it an accepted fact that as our velocity increases, time slows down - theoretically, to the point of stopping completely were we to achieve the speed of light? Given that trade-off, if our velocity is zero, then should it not be given that we are in fact travelling through time at the speed of light? As our velocity through space increases, our velocity through time then decreases accordingly.
Of course, special relativity has nothing whatsoever to do with spiritual beliefs, but it is illustrative of how flexible the concept of time itself is. So what if, for argument's sake, at the instant of our death, we have the innate ability to slow our perception of time to zero? Call it a kind of last-ditch survival instinct. Would we not then exist in a kind of consciousness of singularity - in fixed point in time - while the rest of existence flies off at the speed of light without us? I think it's probably akin to something like a locked-in stroke victim or someone in a coma would experience - what your consciousness experiences depends on what you take with you. There's not really any connection to time in the world outside of your consciousness - there is just the existence you create for yourself. We create for ourselves our own heaven and our own hell, and journey through our own purgatory for the wrongs we know we have done. As you believe, so shall it be.
When you talk of God's will vs. Man's will, I don't see the dichotomy there. To me, they are one and the same. We are the cells, God is the body - ie, Spinoza's God. We have different perceptions and exist in different environments, but we are, in the end, one and the same.