I wrote my Masters Thesis 35 years ago praising the Gnostic philosopher Rudolf Steiner. It was entitled, Rudolf Steiner: A Seeker in Pursuit of Truth and Self Knowledge. I had enthusiastically read The Nag Hammadi Library, a book containing Gnostic gospels. I also perused the writings of Prof. Elaine Pagels who also wrote of the Gnostic Gospels. I even wrote an article myself for the feminist Gnostic journal Anima entitled Adam: Male, Female or Both? Once again, I've been there and done that. I am speaking from a position of knowledge and experience in this regard. I too thought I could become a god. I am not just spewing judgment from a position of ignorance.

These false teachers are trying to defraud people of their prize which is salvation and eternal life by telling them that they too can become a god. They try and do that, as I stated early on, by trying to denigrate the Bible, Jesus, Mary, the crucifixion and resurrection. They tell people that they can have the Christ consciousness in themselves and thus they do not need to repent from their sins and seek forgiveness. Sin is never mentioned by these false teachers. Why not? Because one does not need a Savior if there is no sin. They are also preparing unsuspecting people to believe the great deception that those millions of Christians who are suddenly gone have been abducted by UFOs not taken into the clouds by Jesus to hide them from the coming time of hell on earth known as the tribulation.

If it turns out that people are all basically good and are in no need of a Savior for their sins, then all that I believe is a lie. If people can become gods by just learning some hidden, secret knowledge and there is no coming Rapture of Believers, than I am just an old fool who will die one day and that will be the end of it. There will be no consequences nor any rewards for my actions.

But if I am correct and the Bible is true, than non-believers have a lot more to lose than I do. I would just be wrong, dead wrong, but no harm no foul. They, however, would suffer for eternity because of their beliefs. If wrong, the consequences of their decision would be never ending torment.

This is what is often referred to as Pascal's Wager. The 17th century French Mathematician and Philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in his famous treatise, Pensees, "that it is a better "bet" to believe that God exists than not to believe." As I explained above, who has more to lose, the person who believes in God and is wrong or the person that does not believe in God and is wrong? The answer is obvious.

John Von Neumann, one of the founders of Game Theory and a world renowned mathematician who worked with Edward Teller on the Manhattan Project turned his life over to Christ on his deathbed. Born a Jew and a midlife convert to Catholicism to please his wife, Von Neumann had remained an atheist all of his life. He said from his deathbed:

"I encourage you to try believing in the Christian God…I myself had been an atheist for most of my life ever since I was four years old and I decided that religion was silly... I later argued against the existence of God… Then I began to think about Pascal's Wager. I looked for ways to defuse the wager but I was unable to convince myself. Finally I decided to give in and I'm now very glad that I did."

Beware of people who want to tickle your ears with meaningless myths and tell you what you want to hear to inflate your ego and try and get you to pay no attention to your sins. Rather, would you please at least consider, Pascal's Wager?