Is there scriptural support for Pascal's wager?

> Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and actively strive to believe in God. The reasoning behind this stance lies in the potential outcomes: if God does not exist, the individual incurs only finite losses, potentially sacrificing certain pleasures and luxuries. However, if God does indeed exist, they stand to gain immeasurably, as represented for example by an eternity in Heaven in Abrahamic tradition, while simultaneously avoiding boundless losses associated with an eternity in Hell. > > (source: [Pascal's wager - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager)) > Let us now gather together all of these points into a single argument. We can think of Pascal’s Wager as having three premises: the first concerns the decision table of rewards, the second concerns the probability that you should give to God’s existence, and the third is a maxim about rational decision-making. Specifically: > > 1. Either God exists or God does not exist, and you can either wager for God or wager against God. The utilities of the relevant possible outcomes are as follows, where f1, f2, and f3 are numbers whose values are not specified beyond the requirement that they be finite: > | | *God exists* | *God does not exist* | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | ***Wager for God*** | ∞ | f1 | | ***Wager against God*** | f2 | f3 | > 2. Rationality requires the probability that you assign to God existing to be positive (and finite). > 3. Rationality requires you to perform the act of maximum expected utility (when there is one). > 4. Conclusion 1. Rationality requires you to wager for God. > 5. Conclusion 2. You should wager for God. > > (source: [Pascal’s Wager - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/)) Is there any biblical basis for encouraging non-believers to consider embracing Christianity with the hopeful anticipation that, if it proves to be true, they may experience the promised reward of an afterlife characterized by eternal bliss in Heaven and avoid a potential infinite loss of an eternity in Hell? Note: I'm asking this question as a follow-up to https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/99793/61679 ---- **Appendix** *Pascal's views on faith and reason* > **Pascal begins by painting a situation where both the existence and non-existence of God are impossible to prove by human reason**. So, supposing that reason cannot determine the truth between the two options, one must "wager" by weighing the possible consequences. Pascal's assumption is that, when it comes to making the decision, no one can refuse to participate; withholding assent is impossible because we are already "embarked", effectively living out the choice. > **Inability to believe** > Pascal addressed the difficulty that reason and rationality pose to genuine belief by proposing that "acting as if [one] believed" could "cure [one] of unbelief": >> But at least learn your inability to believe, since reason brings you to this, and yet you cannot believe. Endeavor then to convince yourself, not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your passions. You would like to attain faith, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness. > > (source: [Pascal's wager - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager))