This paper will argue for Pascal's reason why you should believe that God exists. Pascal propositions for theism is what Sober calls a prudential reason. That is it is in your own self-interest that you believe in God, though

ld not possibly hope to understand an all-knowing and powerful God by rational inquiry. In both cases there is a probability that God exists.

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Sober makes two objections to Pascal's Wager. First Sober brings forth the decision theory and states that belief is not an action you can choose and perform, at your will. You cannot choose to belief in God because you are given a prudential reason. The second and even stronger objection to Pascal's Wager made by Sober is that Pascal makes a quick assumption of how God would be like if he existed. Pascal referred to a God that is of one particular religious tradition and not others, that there is a heaven and hell, and that atheist would get punished or suffer in some way or another. How could a person know if these assumptions are true? Sober sees no reason why any of the payoffs that Pascal depicts are true.

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