6. Pascal’s logic is to be genuinely be open and seek Christ.

Blaise Pascal (1623 –1662)

Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method. He was a mathematician of the first order. His two famous philosophical works are: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées.

One Summary of Pascal’s Wager
You live as though Christianity is true: ▪ If it is true, then there’s far more chance that you will accept it: your gain is infinite. ▪ If it is not true, you gain nothing & lose nothing.
You live as though Christianity is not true: ▪ If it is true, you either lose nothing or your loss is infinite. ▪ If it is not true, you gain nothing & lose nothing.
With these possibilities, and the principles of statistics, Pascal attempted to demonstrate that the only wise course of action is to live as if Christianity is true. It is a simple application of mathematical game theory (to which Pascal had made important contributions).

The key point:
There is great logic in at least trying to investigate the evidence for Christianity, to try to live as if Christianity is true and to try seeing life from that perspective. There is actually good reason to think this will give you a better chance to assess the truth of God’s existence. Why? Well, by at least living as if Christianity were true, a person will consider the objective evidence for Christianity in a far far fairer manner than the dismissive approach of those who want to live without God impacting their life. The positive evidence will be viewed far more objectively since the person will have two frames of reference to assess the positive evidence. One frame of reference will be their previous life without God and the other frame of reference will be the new life of living as though God exists. Before the person’s change of life, she or he will only have one frame of reference and therefore they will have far more bias when approaching the evidence, dismissing it more hastily. The person who experiences both possibilities has far more chance of objectively and fairly weighing the evidence.

Some might argue that the same argument could be used of Islam etc. But it is quite clear to those who investigate that the origins and claims of Islam are far more subjective and based on very few historical realities, compared with Christianity. Christianity has the best objective evidence and it is the best place to consider Pascal’s ‘wager’.