(June 19, 1623\u2013August 19, 1662), was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher. Known as the \u201cFather of the Science of Hydrostatics,\u201d he helped develop the barometer, pioneered hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics, leading to his discovery of \u201cPascal\u2019s Principle,\u201d the basis of hydraulics. He made invaluable contributions in the areas of probability and differential calculus, with the invention of Pascal\u2019s triangle for calculating the coefficients of a binomial expansion. His influential religious works, emphasizing \u201cthe reasons of the heart\u201d over dry logic and intellect, were entitled Lettres Provinciales,<\/i> 1656\u201357, and Pensees Sur La Religion,<\/i> published posthumously in 1670.<\/p>\n
In Pensees,<\/i> 1670, Blaise Pascal wrote:<\/p>\n
Men blaspheme what they don\u2019t know.276<\/p>\n
Blaise Pascal was known for his \u201cWager of Pascal,\u201d which stated:<\/p>\n
How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing\u2014in fact, he has been happier in life than his nonbelieving friends. If, however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!277<\/p>\n
In the work, Thoughts, Letters, and Opuscules,<\/i> Blaise Pascal stated:<\/p>\n
We know God only through Jesus Christ. Without this Mediator, is taken away all communication with God; through Jesus Christ we know God. All those who have pretended to know God, and prove Him without Jesus Christ, have only had impotent proofs. <\/p>\n
But, to prove Jesus Christ we have the prophecies which are good and valid proofs. And those prophecies, being fulfilled, and truly proved by the event, indicate the certainty of these truths, and therefore the truth of the divinity of Jesus Christ. In Him, and by Him, then, we know God. Otherwise, and without Scripture, without original sin, without a necessary Mediator, we can not absolutely prove God, nor teach a good doctrine and sound morals. <\/p>\n
But by Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ, we prove God and teach doctrine and morals. Jesus Christ, then, is the true God of men. Not only do we know God only through Jesus Christ, but we know ourselves only through Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
We know life, death, only through Jesus Christ. Except by Jesus Christ we know not what life is, what our death is, what God is, what we ourselves are. Thus, without Scripture, which has only Jesus Christ for its object, we know nothing, and we see not only obscurity and confusion in the nature of God, but in nature herself. Without Jesus Christ, man must be in sin and misery; with Jesus Christ, man is exempt from sin and misery. In Him is all our virtue, and all our felicity. Out of Him, there is nothing but sin, misery, error, darkness, death, and despair.278<\/p>\n
After his death, this writing was found in Pascal\u2019s effects:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,\u201d not of philosophers and scholars.279<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(June 19, 1623\u2013August 19, 1662), was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher. Known as the \u201cFather of the Science of Hydrostatics,\u201d he helped develop the barometer, pioneered hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics, leading to his discovery of \u201cPascal\u2019s Principle,\u201d the basis of hydraulics. He made invaluable contributions in the areas of probability and differential calculus, with … Continue reading “PASCAL,
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