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If you're trusting in your own works like prayers, wearing crosses, etc. then you're going to Hell. Nothing we do can impress God or fix our sin problem.
The only righteousness good enough to pass His perfect judgment is His own, which He gave to us through the blood of Jesus Christ. Gotta trust in the blood and nothing else. We're to rest in His finished work. His last words on the cross were "It is finished!", meaning the work is complete. We can't add to it. We're evil, we can't do good in God's eyes. Read Romans 3 if you don't believe it - I thought I was a good person until Romans 3 told me God doesn't think any person is good. But trusting in the blood of Jesus alone gives so much more peace than stepping into eternity hoping you did good enough...
Stop striving to be. You'll never make it. God promises you'll never impress him or be righteous enough. The Bible compares our righteousness as dirty rags, a menstrual cloth. It disgusts God.
You can't trust in a baptism, you can't trust in your ability to stop sinning, you can't make yourself "clean" to approach Him, none of that. Trust completely in the blood and that God raised His Son from the dead, defeating death, and nothing else.
You'll get born again, God's Holy Spirit will live inside of you, and His Spirit being in you will cause your mind and life to become more like him. He did the work to justify us 2000 years ago, but he does the work to clean up our lives AFTER we trust fully in the blood via the Holy Spirit.