 Pascal maintains that we cannot know whether God exists or not, but he argues that we can solve the decision problem of whether or not to ‘wager for God’—roughly, to cultivate belief in God. There are two available courses of action: wager for God, or fail to wager for God. There are two relevant conceivable states of the world: God exists, or God does not exist. The probability that God exists is \(p\), whence the probability assigned that God does not exist is \(1 - p\). The utility of wagering for God, if God exists—salvation forever—is infinite. All of the other utilities—of an earthly life of some finite duration—are finite. We may formulate the resulting decision table as follows: