ABOUT GOD
I grew up in Italy, the country of the Vatican and growing up I received all the Holy Sacraments
so when I got out of the coma I said that I had spoken with Jesus Christ who asked me if I wanted to return living on Earth or cross the death river, I was told that I replied that I had 2 children who I loved so very much that I wanted to continue living, that’s when Jesus warned me that coming back to Earth would have been very painful but I thought that nothing can’t be managed by some Tylenol.
I also thought that I must have committed a bad sin and all I could imagine is that I had cheated on my wife, but after having asked to very many women who used to work with me I realized that cheating wasn’t a sin I ever committed, and I later learned that my accident isn’t a godly punishment for something I had done or thought.
Since I grew up with the teachings of a protective and caring God I started to think that since my accident wasn’t a punishment for any sin I may have committed, I rejected the idea of a loving and caring God and became an atheist and started a research about religions and faiths.
That’s when I discovered Pascal Wager who said something very logical and full of sense, which represents now my faith and belief
1. One does not know whether God exists.
2. Not believing in God is bad for one's eternal soul if God does exist.
3. Believing in God is of no consequence if God does not exist.
4. Therefore it is in one's interest to believe in God."
I grew up in Italy, the country of the Vatican and growing up I received all the Holy Sacraments
so when I got out of the coma I said that I had spoken with Jesus Christ who asked me if I wanted to return living on Earth or cross the death river, I was told that I replied that I had 2 children who I loved so very much that I wanted to continue living, that’s when Jesus warned me that coming back to Earth would have been very painful but I thought that nothing can’t be managed by some Tylenol.I also thought that I must have committed a bad sin and all I could imagine is that I had cheated on my wife, but after having asked to very many women who used to work with me I realized that cheating wasn’t a sin I ever committed, and I later learned that my accident isn’t a godly punishment for something I had done or thought.
Since I grew up with the teachings of a protective and caring God I started to think that since my accident wasn’t a punishment for any sin I may have committed, I rejected the idea of a loving and caring God and became an atheist and started a research about religions and faiths.
That’s when I discovered Pascal Wager who said something very logical and full of sense, which represents now my faith and belief
1. One does not know whether God exists.
2. Not believing in God is bad for one's eternal soul if God does exist.
3. Believing in God is of no consequence if God does not exist.
4. Therefore it is in one's interest to believe in God."
1 comments:
Thanks for the post on Pascal's Wager. Agree with the logic of it and see it as a "smart choice," and a "first step."
Recently, I read about "where God can be "found'" and I am posting it here as part of the discussion on God's existence a step beyond where one find's oneself with Pascal's Wager.
Benedict XVI "explained that while God cannot be touched or evaluated like a utensil or an object, the capacity to perceive him exists within us.
Benedict XVI pointed to three channels by which God can be found: creation, Scripture, and those who are "touched by him."
"We can intuit something of God's grandeur in the grandeur of the cosmos," he said. "We can use the world through technology because it is made in a rational manner. In the great rationality of the world we can intuit the creator spirit from which it comes, and in the beauty of creation we can intuit something of the beauty, of the grandeur and also the goodness of God.
"In the Word of sacred Scriptures we can hear the words of eternal life that do not come merely from men, but that come from him, and in them we hear his voice.
And, finally, we glimpse God too in encounters with persons who are touched by him. I am not thinking only of the great ones: from Paul to Francis of Assisi to Mother Teresa; but I am thinking of the many simple people of whom no one speaks. And yet, when we meet them, there emanates something of goodness, sincerity, joy, and we know that God is there and that he touches us too."
Benedict XVI concluded with an invitation to "try to return to seeing God, to return to being persons through whom the light of hope might enter the world, a light that comes from God and helps us to live."
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