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You are free to pick either door. But the judge (God) tells you to pick door A. Your lawyer (Jesus) tells you to pick door A. I'm telling you to pick door A. Now your trying to tell me that it's everybody else's, including God's, fault that you picked door B.

The man is not getting advice from the judge or the lawyer, he's getting it from the reports (the Holy Bible, the findings of science, the books of other religions). Jesus is not walking the earth today, and God the Father is not incarnate, either.

You may interpert the reports as advocating door A. Another good man and sincere seeker of truth (like Richard Dawkins) may choose door B. After one hundred years of consideration, he may make the wrong choice. One hundred years to decide for eternity is absurdly more capricious than one minute to decide for the rest a human lifetime. I can't see how God could be infinitely more cruel than the judge in the analogy.

Romans 1
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

That man will not be able to say to the judge that he made a mistake in taking the wrong door, when the correct door was always evident to him. He has no excuse.

JM