 Whereas Pascal held that the payoff of believing in God would be infinite, if God exists, Golding is careful to insist that the value of a good relationship with God is finite. Otherwise, as he notes, we are faced with the problem – alluded to above – that more than one path might be equally rational for a person in light of its expected value. If, however, the value of a good relationship with God is finite, then whichever path is deemed to have the greatest chance of success at achieving this reward will have the highest expected value, other things being equal. Of course, the expected value of the good relationship with God must be higher than the expected value of any non-religious pursuit, however likely the latter is to result in a mundane payoff. Thus, Golding holds that the value of a good relationship with God should be understood “not merely as ‘a lot better’ or ‘vastly better’ than any other goal,” but as qualitatively different. Given this difference in kind, Golding concludes that “no quantitative amount of other goods added together would equal the value” of the good relationship with God (66).