Monday, August 17, 2020

Pascal’s wager - better to bet on God!

Morning: Psalm 106:1-18; Judges 17:1-13; Acts 7:44-8:1a

Evening: Psalm 106:19-48; John 5:19-29

Today’s Gospel is difficult for me ... Jesus speak of those who have done good being resurrected to life and those who have done evil being resurrected to condemnation. What to say about this? Philosopher Blaise Pascal had an idea ... A rational person should live as though God exists and believe in God. If God does not exist, the person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas if God does exist, he stands to receive infinite gains (‘heaven’) and avoid infinite losses (‘hell’). Using this logic, better to bet on God and do good, right!?

 

at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

He must increase, but I must decrease

Morning: Psalm 72; I Samuel 1:1-20; Hebrews 3:1-6 Evening: Psalms 146, 147; Zechariah 2:10-13; John 3:25-30 Here, I have sought daily to s...

  • Release … from prison and from death
    Morning: Psalm 118 ; 2 Kings 20:1-21 ; Acts 12:1-17 Evening: Psalm 145 ; Luke 7:11-17 Peter’s miraculous release from prison and Jesus’ ...
  • Integrity: nothing left to prove
    Morning: Psalm 1, 2, 3; Daniel 1:1-21; I John 1:1-10 Evening: Psalm 4, 7; John 17:1-11 Jesus prayed for his disciples to be one, as God i...
  • Build on strong foundations
    Morning: Psalm 105:1-22 ; 2 Kings 18:28-37 ; I Corinthians 9:1-15 Evening: Psalm 105:23-45 ; Matthew 7:22-29 A young colleague died tr...