Jesus made things worse - as well as better

It has been noticed (even including by me!) that a hell of torment seems to have arisen after Jesus offered the possibility of Heaven. 

Apparently, before Jesus; the Jews (mostly) had a common destination of Sheol, a ghostly underworld to which all souls went after mortal death. 

But this wasn't a place of hellish torment - rather a place of semi-conscious insensibility, forgetting of identity. 

It seems to me that the choice to reject the gift of resurrected eternal life, in which personal identity is retained and Love is the basis - therefore had spiritual consequences that did not exist before (or perhaps only seldom).  

The consequence of rejecting Heaven is not necessarily hell - there are other possibilities; and the choice to reject resurrected eternal life need not be annihilation after mortal death - there are other possibilities. 

( e.g. Reincarnation of some kind, Nirvana, some kind of paradise, ghost-hood; and obedient servitude to Satan that does not - at first - involve inhabiting hell.)

Nonetheless, the usual reasons, typical motivations, behind rejection of the offer salvation - may be what leads to worse outcomes than if salvation had never been offered and never been available.

The choice to reject Heaven has spiritual consequences that would not otherwise have arisen.  

Another potential way that Jesus made things worse is for those (many) who "use" Christianity - i.e. they use the religions that purport to define and administer the "following" of Jesus by individual people -  to pursue selfish and worldly goals. 

Under this category can be put all the many appalling characters who have been bishops and other church leaders; and who used the excuse of Christianity mainly to pursue wealth, power, cruelty and resentment; and the masses and mobs who have done the same kind of thing - either by their own choice, or by enthusiastic obedience. 

I don't suppose Christians are materially worse than other religions in this respect, and not as bad as some atheist totalitarian regimes of the past century  - although they were surely very bad, and from early in church history. 

But spiritually, it may be that there is something especially harmful about subordinating and deploying a kind of "public-Christianity" from motivations of personal gratification and this-worldly ends. 

This, in the sense that the dishonest abuse and distortion of what is essentially good, has a particularly nasty quality - as when truly spiteful or sadistic people affect the attitude and emotions of kindness and compassion.  

Probably; this is far more deeply damaging to the soul than would be an acknowledgement of one's own evil tendencies. 

In these ways; it may be that the advent of Jesus Christ, and the choice he gave us to attain a resurrected eternal Heavenly life of Love; served to divide more sharply the saved and those who rejected salvation, the sheep from goats... 

Even though there are possibilities other than sheep or goat - the rejection of sheep-affiliation may well be associated with an increased embrace of the goat-option.