{"product_id":"if-there-is-no-god-you-lose-everything-if-there-is-no-god-and-you-believe-in-him-you-lose-nothing-if-there-is-a-god-and-you-do-not-believe-in-him-you-lose-everything","title":"If there is no God you lose everything: If there is no God and you believe in Him, you lose nothing. If there is a God and you do not believe in Him, you lose everything","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eEverything is at stake. That is the wager that has unsettled thoughtful people for three hundred years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eBlaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, and one of the inventors of probability, looked at the question of God and turned it into a bet. If God is real and you trusted him, you gain everything. If God is real and you turned away, you lose everything. The cost of believing is small against a prize that is infinite. It is one of the most quietly disturbing arguments ever made, and it has trailed honest, searching people for centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThis book takes that bet seriously. It also refuses to stop there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eBecause a calculated faith, a bet placed to cover your eternal bases, is not yet faith at all. And somewhere along the way the whole question turns over in your hands. You discover that you were never really the one at the table, deciding whether to risk something on a distant God. You were the one being come for. The infinite was never a jackpot at the end of a calculation. It was a Person, and he reached for you first.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWritten for the honest seeker and for the believer who still wrestles with doubt, this is an unhurried, gentle, and clear walk from a clever bet toward something far better than a bet. It moves through the questions real people actually ask. What if I am betting on the wrong God? Can a person even make himself believe? What happens when faith goes cold? And it does all of it without pressure, without fear tactics, and without once asking you to pretend you are more certain than you are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThis book is for you if:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; color: #0f1111; padding: 0px; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou are genuinely searching, and you want something true rather than clever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou believe, but you still lie awake with questions you do not raise out loud at church.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou have felt the fear of an empty universe, and wondered whether anything stands behind the silence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou have suspected, somewhere deep down, that there must be more to faith than placing a safe bet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou do not have to have it all figured out. You do not have to be certain. The grave was empty, the Father is already running down the road, and he is not far from any one of us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCome and look.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"His Story for Us","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67372814926128,"sku":"9786169528203","price":11.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/if-there-is-no-god-you-lose-everything-if-there-is-no-god-and-you-believe-in-him-you-lose-nothing-if-there-is-a-god-and-you-do-not-believe-in-him-you-lose-everything","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}