Problems with Pascal’s Famous Wager
Most who study Christian Apologetics have heard of Blaise Pascal; others note a problem with Pascal’s Famous wager.
The wager
According to Got Questions,
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Most who study Christian Apologetics have heard of Blaise Pascal; others note a problem with Pascal’s Famous wager.
According to Got Questions,
“Mentor Books is publishing “A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689”, edited by Rob Ventura and written by a collection of over 20 long-serving Reformed Baptist pastors.” - Ref21
“Many people assume that the Catholic Church stopped granting indulgences….This comprehensive doctrine, revised in 1967 by Pope Paul VI, remains one of the church’s teachings to this day.” - The Conversation
“I am not pitting the Bible against reason. I am pitting Wolfe’s application of reason against what I consider the Bible’s own exegetical and redemptive reasoning.” - 9 Marks
“Though we can only observe from our corner of the world, we see most clearly when we look for what God’s doing in the other corners.” - Collin Hansen
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10. CT reads Christ into passages where He is plainly not in view and employs Him (particularly His first coming) as the lens through which Scripture must be understood.
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it?” - Olinger
Last time, we saw how the very first promise of the Messiah proclaimed Him to be the “Seed” of the woman (Gen. 3:15). But before we can go any further into understanding the characteristics of this coming Savior, we certainly must realize that He was also to be the “Seed” of “Abraham” (Gal. 3:16).
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