Simple question to Inerrantists

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I have not yet heard a Christian express their faith in the same
manner...that they realize that their faith may be misplaced, but that they
have assessed the risks of their faith in God being misplaced and found that
risk to be acceptable.
 
JACOB
I refer you to Pascal's wager:  "If you believe that God and hell don't
exist, and I believe they do; and if, when we die, we discover you were
right; then we will have both lost nothing.  But if when we die, we discover
that I am right and you are wrong; then you will have lost, and I will have
gained everything."  [This is a very rough paraphrase]

Basically, if I'm wrong what happens after I die doesn't matter.  If you're
wrong, you get to spend an eternity completely separated from God.  Of
course, if you don't believe in God then you won't comprehend how horrible
eternal life without God would be.

Greg
The absurdity in Pascal's wager can be seen with the application of it (very
rough paraphrasing of Mr. Till's article -
http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1991/2/2front91.html). The
whole point being that you would then have to choose which God you would
have to believe in, and in the case of the wager, you would have to believe
in all of them. Something which you are probably not willing to do. So now
do you see why it is absurd? 

Not to mention, you have everything to lose. Including your own personal
intellectual integrity.

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