If Christians would finally realize that Pascal's Wager totally negates their concept of free will...?

Question

Would they finally stop asking it??

Answer 1

That's too complicated a concept for them.

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Answer 2

With due repect your positon lacks foundation as Pascal makes evidently clear in his book 'Pensees' from which the Wager or 'Pari' in French the man has always the freedom not to participate. After all the French Catholic Jansenists did not regect totally free will like the Dutch and English Protestant Calvinists (from whom the English and subsequently American Puritans originate)

Answer 3

Not at all... Pascal's Wager does not negate free-will.

The Wager just asks the question -- what response is a rational response on my part.... To choose to live as a Christian is a more rational response (to the gospel in the context of Pascal's Wager) than to choose to live as an Atheist.

I used to be an Atheist.

Cordially,
John
http://www.GodSci.org

Answer 4

There are only 3 certainties in life...
1.Death
2.Taxes
3.Pascal's Wager being asked on Y! R&S

Answer 5

It is their favorite question. It is one of those things that if you don't think about it for 30 seconds makes a lot of sense, but as soon as you do, you realize it is just silly.

They would still ask, because they don't take the 30 seconds in the first place. What makes you think they would figure that part out.

Answer 6

Naw, they don't understand the total failure of this wager.
*drink*

Answer 7

To some of them, it sounds like it actually VALIDATES it.

Answer 8

Of course not.

Answer 9

youre the one asking....not me...i dont care about it since this is spiritual stuff here!!

Answer 10

......crickets........sip, ahhhhhh..........