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Pascal's Pensées: Week 33, Harming the Will

Pascal’s Pensées: Week 33, Harming the Will

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  • God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.
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  • One of the points I make in Reviving Old Scratch is that a lot of us turn God into a Rubik’s Cube we have to solve. Especially when it comes to something like the problem of evil.
    • Note: Devotion to doctrine, particularly among the reformed. Westminster Confession: “The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture”
  • God wishes to move the will rather than the mind, for addressing the mind can poison the will. Christianity isn’t a philosophy. It’s not a path to enlightenment. It’s not an intellectual puzzle to solve. It’s not a book full of answers. Christianity is, rather, an arena of meaningful action. An arena that prioritizes the virtues of faith, hope, and love.
  • The Bible doesn’t give us a theodicy, it provides us with a call to meaningful action. When it comes to evil the Bible addresses the will rather than the mind, because if the Bible had addressed the mind about evil it would have harmed our will.