Pascal himself did not use abstract terms to prove the existence of God, but tried to reveal the identity of man in the relationship with the Creator. A clip shows Pascal trying to write "a letter that can lead people to seek God". Then, let people seek God from philosophers, skeptics and dogmatists, who will only make those seekers feel uneasy. " He declared that, in a sense, God was hidden. God is neither the object of sensory observation nor as clear as the concept in geometric argument. For human beings, God is just in the paradox of being present and not being present.

Why do people need to seek God? Pascal thinks that the world picture of Christian belief is "worthy of respect because it truly understands human nature", and Christians can experience the unique dimension of life and spiritual consciousness, which is facilitated by the divine grace of incarnation:

"The Christian God is such a God, which makes the soul feel that God is the only beauty of the soul; Everything else in the soul is in God, and the soul has no other joy except loving God. At the same time, it also makes the soul hate all kinds of obstacles that hinder it and prevent it from trying to love God. "

Pascal's "memory" is an example of his mysterious meeting with God. He found the third road between arrogance and despair in Christ: "Jesus Christ is a God who does not approach him arrogantly, and we do not bow to him in despair." Pascal also believes that knowledge about God also comes from the mind, but this knowledge is not irrational.

"Those who are endowed with religion by God through spiritual feelings are very lucky and will naturally believe in God. However, for those who don't get it, we can only give them religion through reasoning, and wait for God to give them religion through spiritual feelings; Otherwise, faith can only be a person, which is of no benefit to salvation. "

Although Pascal also demonstrated the philosophy of faith, he thought that knowledge about God was sometimes intuitive rather than demonstrative. Pascal's worldview urges him to put forward an argument to defend teaching in order to convince those who don't believe, even if some people choose faith without clear cognitive evidence.

On the contrary, Descartes adopted a completely different strategy, and from the methodology (I think therefore I am in |cogito ergo sum), he constructed his own system by doubting all possibilities, including deductive arguments about the existence of God and the reality of the external world. These arguments eliminated skepticism and defended a metaphysical God who had nothing to do with the Christian Bible. But Pascal never proved a universal God, but a Christian God inspired by Christ.

The following are Descartes' two arguments about the existence of God:

The first argument:

1. I have the idea of God.

There must be a reason for this idea.

3. The truth in the cause cannot be less than the truth in the result.

If my idea of God is not caused by God, then the reality in the cause must be less than the reality in the result.

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5. So, God exists.

The second argument:

1. According to the definition, if God exists, he should have all the perfection.

2. Being is a kind of perfection

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3. Therefore, God exists.