Comparisons and Bubbles
How do we know that God exists? The simple yet bluntly honest answer is that He exists because it is the truth. We cannot see God. We cannot touch God. We cannot physically “hang out” with God. Even though we cannot experience all of these tangible concepts with God, we know He is with always with us. Pascal states on page 65, “We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But we do not know either the existence of the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits. But by faith we know his existence, through glory we shall know his nature.” In this quote, Pascal is basically explaining that we don’t need to know every single fact to prove the existence of God. We have something as strong as faith and trust in Him in order to believe. To my confusion, however, Pascal chose to make the comparison of faith to mathematical concepts, including infinity. On pages 64 and 65, Pascal states, “We know that ...