Are you suggesting that God is not fair?
Revelation 21:4,
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
It's not the fact that your family is atheists, it's the fact that they rejected Christ during their lifetime. Their ultimate doom after the great tribulation period and the millennial reign of Christ is the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:14-15,
And death and hell were cast into the lake...
But the Bible says that we can know for sure. It's one thing to say that I know for sure and another to say that the Bible says. It is a peace that God gives us.
I John 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have...
I didn't ask the question and not know the answer. I know the answer.
John 3:18
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:16 says,
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Are you saying that we are living in hell right now?
He died so that a way could be made that we can go to heaven.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I don't mean to change the subject, but if, according to you, Jesus has already returned, what was the point of Him going to the cross, being buried and rising again? He did that for a reason.