Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth.

And this is the final episode of the year.

So long-time listeners of our podcast know that every December I take a sabbatical. I don't write

articles. I don't produce any kind of content online on the podcast or anything else.

And so this is our last episode of the year, but we've got

some really exciting things coming because we're actually going to be tearing down this studio

and rebuilding a brand new studio that we will probably, hopefully be able to reveal to you

toward the end of January. We have a couple episodes that we'll put out before that that we've

already recorded here,

but I'm very excited for you to see the new set, which we are really hoping to get more in-person guests for you.

If you're one of those that watches on YouTube, if you're listening on audio platforms, it won't

affect you at all.

But I love this episode that I recorded with Doug Grohites, who is an amazing philosopher,

a theologian, and we're going to be talking about Blaise Pascal.

And one of the things I love to do in equipping the church to stay on track with historic

Christianity is to connect us with church history, and in particular figures throughout church

history that have been very influential. And today we're

going to be talking about Blaise Pascal and what's famously known as Pascal's Wager. But there were so

many highlights in this episode. We talked about Pascal's defense of original sin, the idea that

humans are born inherently sinful in our nature, which is something that progressive Christianity

often tries to redefine or get rid of. We talked a little bit about postmodernism.

One of the things I love that we got to talk about was something called natural theology.

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