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Pascal's wager redux.....
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RE: Pascal's wager redux.....
(September 13, 2013 at 9:18 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Pascal's Wager is not a good reason to believe anyway, because it automatically assumes that the religion the person proposing it is the one true religion, and believing "just in case" is not true devotion to a religion. I could pretend to go through all the rituals involved in the Christian religion, but my heart wouldn't be into it because in the back of my mind I'd still be believing that it's all a bunch of hocus pocus.

I agree, God in this case the God of Christianity is not selling an insurance policy, Christianity doesn't work that way. Salvation is through grace by faith, this is a gift of real belief, so banking on an insurance policy will only get you a disappointing result, in this life and the next.

Smile GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 13, 2013 at 3:08 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Esquilax - September 13, 2013 at 5:19 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 13, 2013 at 5:22 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Jiggerj - September 14, 2013 at 6:34 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 13, 2013 at 5:24 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 13, 2013 at 5:30 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 13, 2013 at 5:44 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Silver - September 13, 2013 at 5:46 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 13, 2013 at 5:48 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Doubting Thomas - September 13, 2013 at 9:18 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Godschild - September 14, 2013 at 1:18 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by max-greece - September 14, 2013 at 4:22 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Godschild - September 15, 2013 at 11:27 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Esquilax - September 16, 2013 at 4:58 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Tonus - September 14, 2013 at 9:40 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Walking Void - September 14, 2013 at 10:14 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Minimalist - September 14, 2013 at 10:52 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 14, 2013 at 11:15 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Minimalist - September 14, 2013 at 11:52 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by LastPoet - September 14, 2013 at 12:05 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Minimalist - September 15, 2013 at 11:45 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by DeistPaladin - September 15, 2013 at 11:59 pm
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by Cyberman - September 16, 2013 at 12:17 am
RE: Pascal's wager redux..... - by ManMachine - September 16, 2013 at 9:10 am

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