Pascal originally intended the wager to be for people who do not have a firm belief in God or are wavering in their faith. Professor Rota makes this offer again in light of recent studies and ...

As the source of Pascal’s wager, he is often considered a gambling man. He urges the non-believer to bet that God exists. What does one have to lose? In Beyond the Wager: The Christian ...

Most everyone has heard of Pascal’s wager: It is better to bet on the existence of God—what have you got to lose?—than to wager against God and be damned. If that approach has lost some of ...

If it turns out that God is not real, we have lost nothing. That is Pascal’s wager in brutal summation. Pascal’s wager sounds like a prudential response to the failure of reason to ...

Let us revisit the wager then and see if we can learn more. In Pascal’s set-up, God is not allowed to be a strategic player. By betting on God’s existence, Pascal can ensure that he will avoid ...

Pascal’s presentation basically declares that if we wager that God is just a fairy tale and we are correct, we have lost nothing. However, if we believe that He is real and we love and serve Him ...

It is in this work that one finds Pascal’s famous wager. The argument is as follows: either God exists or he does not. We have to choose one way or the other on this issue; it is an unavoidable ...

An updated version of Pascal’s wager offers a powerful argument for Christian commitment. Blaise Pascal, a 17th-century thinker, famously addressed these very questions. An influential ...