Do you think you can cheat God?

[naomi24]

Pascal’s Wager, in short, states that:

**a man has everything to gain and nothing to lose by believing in God, and everything to lose and nothing to gain by not believing in God. On these grounds, one would be foolish not to believe.** (**-** Copied from the internet).

So, according to that, Pascal’s faith wasn’t genuine – but more importantly, he rather stupidly overlooked the fact that God is, allegedly, omniscient, and would therefore be aware of this devious ploy.

Many of the religious here appear to have no hesitation in trumpeting their piety and their good deeds, whilst at the same time often vilifying their fellow man, and in particular those who don’t believe as the religious claim to. In my understanding of Christianity, all of that seems rather contrary to Christ’s teachings. However, it now appears that one self-proclaimed Christian here is, in fact, taking the path of Pascal’s Wager, and I wonder just how many others are secretly following suit– and if so, if it transpires that God does indeed exist, do they really think they are capable of cheating him?

[vivandorron]

I may well have chick.

Ron.

[jomifl]

I am very sincere in my lack of belief in any kind of godlike being and am completely lacking in hypocrisy with regard to religion. Will it be enough to get to heaven though? now there's a conundrum.

[locusts]

{ NAOMI 24 } Do you think you can cheat God? NO

{LOCUSTS} TRIED TO ANALYSE Isa. 45:7
{ NAOMI 24 } I FORM the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am {GOD YAHWEH }, that do all these things.” (Isa. 45:7AS .
{ LOCUSTS } I HAVE TRIED TO ANALYSE THIS scripture . Light is opposite to darkness; and love {humility} is the opposite anger ; I make peace,is opposite to murder . is the evil ?. GOD create . opposite and a negative: There is always an opposite to good and bad
Isaiah 45 Living Bible (TLB) 7 I form the light and make the dark. I send good times and bad. I, Jehovah, am he who does these things.
The two uses of this term are to be seen in the following prophecy, wherein GOD told that he would bring evil or calamity upon Israel because of their evil or wicked course. Moses said: “For I know that after my death you will be sure to act perniciously, and swerve from the way that I appointed you; and in after days evil will befall you, because you will be doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD.” Note also the same in the following, which records a fulfillment of this prophecy. “Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, by serving the Baals and forsaking the LORD. Then . . . the hand of the LORD was against them for THERE evil WAYS , as the LORD had declared.”—Deut. 31:29;Judg. 2:11, 14, 15, AT.