I have no trouble worshiping a God who allows people to choose, and who has since he created them.
If you are given a choice to get on a boat and leave an island on fire, but decide not to board, whose fault is that? The boat's? The Island's? Or yours?
The boat would have to be invisible, and you are told that it's around the corner and you have to just jump into the water and hope it's real. Pascal aside, I think we'd agree that we're talking about sincere belief for salvation, not just "I'm hoping it's out there."
The analogy continued would presume there's someone standing there with a firehose, and he decides to just let you burn and die because you guessed wrongly.
The reason I said it is left to a higher Judge is just the concept that there may have been some factor such as a brain tumor rather than some intellectual, spiritual, or other decision on his part. Obviously we don't know what motivated this guy, we don't know him even superficially, much less what was going on inside his brain.
Don't we give those who are non compos mentis a reprieve from their guilt because they are not in their right mind? I would think that our Creator would make allowances for such malfunctions.
I'm glad to know that's what you believe, and it doesn't surprise me. There are people out there who take a "stricter" view, however.
But given work by Libet, and Wegner and Wheatley, showing we don't truly have free will, should we not all have such allowances? And knowing we are flawed with imperfect intellect and imperfect faith, perhaps some chance of rehabilitation rather than eternal torment for a wrong guess, would be a more admirable system.