Blaise Pascal's Argument For The Existence Of God
One of the greatest unanswered questions, is the existence of the greatest being, GOD. There are so many reasons why people believe in GOD. It doesn’t matter which side you are in this argument. I agree with Pascal with that it’s better to believe in him than not because there’s more to gain than not if you don’t believe and he exists you don’t go to “heaven”, and if you believe and he doesn’t exist you don’t lose anything. That’s the only actual way it works.
Blaise Pascal is a French philosopher that created an argument that was presented in the seventeenth-century, he came up with his most famous theory, Pascal’s wager. This theory is based on which gambling the belief in GOD existence. Overall Pascal argues that a rational person should …show more content…
second, what is the size of the payoff?” Higher chances of winning with a high chance of receiving the payoff is a good deal, most often lottery tickets are not really a good deal. In the head of Pascal, he claims that by believing in GOD it's infinitely better than not. If the lottery ticket chances were 1/100 and the ticket price was $1 and the payoff was 1 billion dollars its logical to buy the ticket. Sometime in the seventeenth century, Renee Descartes defended similar arguments. For example, the proof of the existence of GOD is to conceive a supremely perfect being. He continues to say that “there is no less contradiction conceiving a supreme being who lacks existence than there is conceiving a triangle whose interior angles do not sum 180 degrees hence one must conclude He exists.” …show more content…
This argument originating with Greek philosopher Epicurus, the logical argument from evil is as follows. If GOD is perfectly good, GOD is omniscient and omnipotent. Evil exists, if GOD was perfectly good, omniscient, and omnipotent then Evil wouldn’t exist. Which makes 100% right there wouldn’t be so much evil in this world if GOD exists but it does. For me, this argument isn’t complete because GOD created Lucifer and he is the definition of evil. Lucifer the creator of all evil that’s the only thing that makes sense. It’s the Devil against GOD which is translated to Good vs. Evil. God made the devil as powerful as him. Therefore, Evil exists for God (Good) to overcome in other words evil exists to test someone’s faith. There are two types of evil moral and natural the difference is moral evil is between stealing or not. Natural evil is more like earthquakes and tornadoes things humans can’t
Blaise Pascal is a French philosopher that created an argument that was presented in the seventeenth-century, he came up with his most famous theory, Pascal’s wager. This theory is based on which gambling the belief in GOD existence. Overall Pascal argues that a rational person should …show more content…
second, what is the size of the payoff?” Higher chances of winning with a high chance of receiving the payoff is a good deal, most often lottery tickets are not really a good deal. In the head of Pascal, he claims that by believing in GOD it's infinitely better than not. If the lottery ticket chances were 1/100 and the ticket price was $1 and the payoff was 1 billion dollars its logical to buy the ticket. Sometime in the seventeenth century, Renee Descartes defended similar arguments. For example, the proof of the existence of GOD is to conceive a supremely perfect being. He continues to say that “there is no less contradiction conceiving a supreme being who lacks existence than there is conceiving a triangle whose interior angles do not sum 180 degrees hence one must conclude He exists.” …show more content…
This argument originating with Greek philosopher Epicurus, the logical argument from evil is as follows. If GOD is perfectly good, GOD is omniscient and omnipotent. Evil exists, if GOD was perfectly good, omniscient, and omnipotent then Evil wouldn’t exist. Which makes 100% right there wouldn’t be so much evil in this world if GOD exists but it does. For me, this argument isn’t complete because GOD created Lucifer and he is the definition of evil. Lucifer the creator of all evil that’s the only thing that makes sense. It’s the Devil against GOD which is translated to Good vs. Evil. God made the devil as powerful as him. Therefore, Evil exists for God (Good) to overcome in other words evil exists to test someone’s faith. There are two types of evil moral and natural the difference is moral evil is between stealing or not. Natural evil is more like earthquakes and tornadoes things humans can’t