What was the importance of Pascal's Wager?

Answer 1

Pascal was the first Christian apologist to accept publicly that it may not be possible to prove that God exists. Instead, he proposed what has become known as Pascal's Wager. This states that it is better to live as if God does exist, because if you are wrong you have lost nothing, but if you do not worship God and you are wrong you have lost everything. There are flaws in Pascal's Wager, not the least of which is that it would logically require us to worship every god, not knowing which one might exist. However Pascal's proposition was very influential for a time.