The disagreements between all these different revelations are not minor. In my previous faith, I believed on supposedly solid scriptural support that if someone doesn’ t believe Jesus is the one true God YHWH, as opposed to the second person in the Trinity, they are going to Hell( John 8:24). If they are not baptized in Jesus name specifically and receive the Holy Spirit accompanied with miraculous evidence of speaking in an unknown language, they are going to Hell( Acts 2:38, John 3:8, Acts 4:12). If they don’ t live a holy and separated life from the world, awkwardly sticking out in society like a sore thumb, they are going to Hell( Hebrews 4:12).
You would think enough already, but there are yet many more ways to get into Hell. If someone is embarrassed to tell others about their faith in Jesus and share what he taught, they are going to Hell.( Mark 8:38) If they believe with only their mind, but not with their heart, they are going to Hell.( Romans 10:9) If they don’ t live their entire life by faith as demonstrated by their good works... you guessed it... they are going to Hell.( James 2:19- 20, Romans 14:23) And to cap it all off, most of us in the modernized world would have been classified as rich by 1st century standards, thus satisfying Jesus’ criteria for worldly comforts and distractions, therefore statistically, the majority of us will be going to Hell.( Matthew 19:24)
Needless to say, even if we take Pascal’ s wager, but we fail to choose this specific Oneness Holiness Pentecostal belief of the United Pentecostal Church International out of the 41,000 possible Christian beliefs and these UPC Pentecostals turn out to be right, we will all be going to Hell. Indeed most of the devout Christians throughout history including Pascal will be going to Hell. Sorry Ray Comfort, William Lane Craig, Mother Teresa, Bill O ' reilly, and Joel Osteen-- you are all betting against one scripture or another and if the Christian god exists, you are all most likely going to Hell with the rest of us.
Modern Argument from Inconsistent Revelations
Using the modern number of revelations that were unavailable to Voltaire’ s argument, let’ s break down our initial statistical chances of choosing the right revelation. In simplified Bayesian terms, this is just our initial probability of being right before considering any evidence. We will limit the scope to the three major monotheistic religions and nonbelief.
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