Pascal
Blaise Pascal presents a wager, a wager that is so important that not to wager would be a mistake. The question of whether or not to believe in God? Now, only two choices are to be had, live like a God exists or live like a God does not exist. First, the preliminaries, we know the finite exists, and its nature is believed to be known, furthermore we know that the infinite exists but that in which, we don’t know the nature. So we know neither the nature nor the existence of God but yet there is faith. As Pascal explains, humans figure things by reason or experience, they are our tools of discovery. But, the problem being the existence of God can not be conceived by reason or experience. Therefore Pascal introduces a wager. The wager breaks down very simply, believe and have faith that God exists and in the end infinite happiness for infinity God so exists. Or do not believe, and if in the end He exists well then one will spend eternity in hell. But, if one lives life as if God exists but he does not well then what you have lost in life is wasted time of living and wasted time of thought. Now the easy way out on th
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Approximate Word count = 794
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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