Modern Approach to Finding God
The modern approach to finding God. How is it that we should come to find our God? ... While both are modern in their thoughts, Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal have different views on how to find this God. ... On the other hand Pascal argues that reason may work for some things, but the only way to find God is through faith. “God, who is the perfect being, is, or exists, as any demonstration of geometry can be.” (The Modern World, Descartes, 28) We do not need faith to find God; we must simply be able to perform geometry to gain complete certainty in his existence. ... ” (The Modern World, Descartes, 22) We must first prepare ourselves to think in such a manner. ... Pascal does not argue with finding truth through reason in nature.