What about people who love the idea of God and heaven (as it really is) but are agnostics? They are miserable throughout their lives and hopeless because they don’t believe even though they wish to believe.
Does God give them a second chance in the next life or are they also doomed to hell?
We don’t know. Your description sounds rather like Mark Twain, poor man.
One discussion on this is in The Great Divorce
by C.S. Lewis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Divorce
It is the individual person's decision to refuse to come to
God's presence that "seals the deal"
Does God give them a second chance in the next life or are they also doomed to hell?My brother has been an agnostic his whole life, and my BIL, an RC priest once told me, "Don't worry so much about your brother. He has faith." My husband and I would refer to my brother as an agnostic saint, so I knew what my BIL was saying, however, as Tax-Chick says, we just don't know. Best to err on the side of caution.