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Monday, May 3, 2010

Pascal's Wager

Here is wisdom;

The French philosopher Blaise Pascal was an early Christian apologist who said that even though we cannot "prove" the existence of God through reason that we should believe in Him anyway. His reasoning for this was that we have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

This is flawed in so many ways. First of all, do you think God is not sophisticated enough to know those who feign love and adoration for Him? Secondly, if we assume that we cannot prove the existence of God wouldn't we stop trying? Finally, how does this prove which god is correct?

This reminds me of something I once heard a preacher say, if the only motivation for obeying God is the fear of hell, then what is going to be our motivation once we get to Heaven?

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