Do Modern Christians Misuse Pascals Wager?
Many Christians today will ease those who are lacking in their faith into the idea of accepting Christianity by telling them that there is nothing to lose in believing in Jesus as their Lord and savior, but everything to gain. document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; It sounds like Pascal’s Wager, but replacing the son for the Father. Many faithful people will argue that the fallacy in this argument is that if Jesus is not what Christians truly believe him to be and God is the jealous God that He proclaims to be in the first commandment, which is that people shall have no other Gods than Him, then there is a great deal to lose. Christians believe that the loss would be the eternal bliss of a life in Heaven for having worshiped a false idol. This, however, is not a perversion of the wager because Pascal was a Christian and serves today as a saint in the Catholic Church. His argument for belief in the Lord woul
Many Christians today will ease those who are lacking in their faith into the idea of accepting Christianity by telling them that there is nothing to lose in believing in Jesus as their Lord and savior, but everything to gain. document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; It sounds like Pascal’s Wager, but replacing the son for the Father. Many faithful people will argue that the fallacy in this argument is that if Jesus is not what Christians truly believe him to be and God is the jealous God that He proclaims to be in the first commandment, which is that people shall have no other Gods than Him, then there is a great deal to lose. Christians believe that the loss would be the eternal bliss of a life in Heaven for having worshiped a false idol. This, however, is not a perversion of the wager because Pascal was a Christian and serves today as a saint in the Catholic Church. His argument for belief in the Lord woul
