Does it make sense to take Pascal’s Wager if God can read your mind?
Pascal’s wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).[1] It posits that humans bet with their lives that God either exists or does not.
C. S. Lewis used a version of this is the chronicles of Narnia. I believe the character name was puddleglum. I find comfort in it when I’m in doubt.
Setting aside the possibility of throwing in with the wrong god, I don’t see how someone can fake their belief in a way that God wouldn’t see through in that scenario.
If you just meet a person, and this person tells you something you do not know about, say a city in a foreign country, you have a choice, you can believe him, without evidence and only based upon your impression of this new person, or you can choose to not believe him for the same reasons.
This is choice of faith based upon limited or no information.
It is possible and happens daily, all over the world.
Now, once you have information, you judge if the information is true and then you permit this to affect your first decision.
In every step, you will have, quite often, a lack of information and a lack of being able to know for sure and you simply choose to believe a person.
So, in the end, what we believe is ourselves and our ability to see through falsehood or our belief that we are able to figure things out, without all the information.
Haha good one. No it doesn’t.
The evidence is in the things unseen. Trust Fall into His arms, then enjoy the hope and peace that truly do move into your life. Christianity was never a ‘what;’ it’s always been a Him.
The OP does not matter. The wager is what is the loss/gain potential and choosing the one with the greater gain/less risk.
God existing is in question here and is part of the wager.
Dfferent point:
I have found the only answer that Atheists give is, “What if you pick the wrong God”
So, the person who denies that God exists Says, “God DOES exist and you picked a false God.”
I have used Pascal’s Wager as a way to witness to lost people, it is just one of several ways one can witness
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