I fail to understand how someone can "decide" to believe in something that they don't believe, just because of Pascal's Wager. Honestly, I don't understand this concept of changing one's beliefs to something else just because it might seem more beneficial.
If I'd get a cookie for believing the sky were polka-dotted, I could only claim that I believe...but I wouldn't actually believe it. How do you do such a thing?
This is an honest inquiry to any who can explain. Thank you.
“This is an honest inquiry to any who can explain. Thank you.”
uh, don’t look at me...*whistles and walks away*
[[I fail to understand how someone can “decide” to believe in something that they don’t believe, just because of Pascal’s Wager.]]
They can’t- but the risk SHOULD at the very least inspire someone to honestly seek to find out if God is indeed real one would htink. We’re ALL born with an inate ‘knowledge’ that there is a God, and it’s only after years of pushing that feeling to the back of our minds that we come to ‘not beleive’. God reveals Himself to every individual through the testimony of hte Holy Spirit in our lives- so in reality, we all go from knowing somethign to be true (even if subconsciously) to a point of hardening our hearts and midns to unbelief- justifying our unbelief along hte way by assuming we’re gaining some form of ‘higher knowledge’ after ‘investigating hte claim’ and coming away empty handed- but hte truth of hte matter is those who ‘don’t find anyhting’ weren’t honestly looking, and some were even looking for excuses to justify their unbelief.
As I said- You can’t simply beleive somethign simpyl because of a wager/profit/reward/punishment etc- but one woudl htink, concidering the dire consequences of being wrong if one dies in unbelief, that the wager would cause someone some serious sefl reflection and seeking to at least examine more closely hte claims of billions of Christians and God’s word. That’s all I’m stating