(April 10, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: How can we believe that your afterlife premise is true if we are not convinced?
Under the version of Pascal's wager being considered, you believe by taking the risk of living a life that has is aimed at the end of eternal life.
Recall my distinction between speculative life (agnostic vs. gnostic) and active life (atheist vs. theist). An speculative agnostic may choose a "theistic" active life (on this account, a temporal life that becomes eternal) if he feels that the probabilities, costs, and benefits are such that he profits from making this choice.
(April 10, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Why would a god, that seems to want people to join him in this afterlife, create some of us that are not convinced of its existence? Why does he fail to provide what is needed to convince us?
This problem is no part of the original post.
(April 10, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: If there are 2 people, both lead equally moral lives, yet one believes in an afterlife, and the other does not. Does the moral person that does not believe in an afterlife have a chance of getting there?
I find the premise implausible, again because "belief" is expressed in the process of living a life, not only morally but in its every other aspect (such as aesthetic). To the extent that it is granted, and both people are equally prepared, my opinion is that the unbeliever will gain eternal life.
(April 10, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Does an immoral person that believes in an afterlife, get one?
No, because his actions contradict his words and mean that was not a "believer" in the first place.
