True or false: Einstein is right, there is no personal God.?

Question

The God that Einstein believed in is not based upon religious doctrine.
It is experienced by a cosmic religious feeling of a universe that has complexity, beauty, and mystery, and an intelligent purpose. It is not just a chaotic accident.

Answer 1

"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." - Einstein, quoted in Einstein: A Life by Dennis Brian.

I'm always amused when "Christians" on here invoke Einstein as if he would be down with their cause. (To mention only one minor point, he was ethnically Jewish!) There's even that one guy who's named himself "The Rev Albert Einstein," and whose answers would have the man rolling in his grave for their sheer ignorance.

To answer the question, I don't know. Philosophically I'm an agnostic, but morally I'm an atheist. I think it's at least clear that a God who "concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind" is inevitably a God who picks sides, a racist God, an unjust God, a bigot, a tyrant - in short, not a "God" I'd be interested in worshiping in the first place.

Answer 2

While I don't believe in the idea of an all-knowing god as presented by organized religion, I don't believe that the universe has only an intelligent purpose. It just is. It has beauty, ugliness, mystery, complexity, and chaos. So to me it looks like neither.

Answer 3

actual. faith is a wide situation; very almost any prepared team of religious ideals could be seen a faith, while there is way less leeway with the belief of one "God". no longer each faith has to have a god, the two (Buddhism, for occasion). And each so often, believers % to settle for some ideals of a faith yet no longer others (such because of fact the belief of a god). and admittedly, what "God" do you advise? The Christian God? The Muslim Allah? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? this is lots much less stressful to define and abide via the constructs of a faith than the belief of a novel all-efficient spectral being.

Answer 4

God plays a very important role in my personal life every day, every hour, every moment. He has shown His love to me in thousands of different ways over my lifetime, to the point that I would be totally ignorant to not believe that He is involved in my daily life.

The first and most important thing He did for me was 2000 years ago when He sent his Son Jesus to die a horrible death to pay for every sin that would ever be committed by me and every other human being in the world. That was just the beginning. He is with me always, even unto the end of the world.

Answer 5

False. Einstein was a One God Jew who wrote "the only thing that matters in life is a relationship with God. Everything else is immaterial".

Answer 6

This is the common view of God by much of the Jewish peoples. So according to common view of most Atheists here Einstein must have been brainwashed... Jim

Answer 7

Is Einstein some kind of an authority on God? Last time I checked he was a scientist not a theologian. As a result, I don't think his opinion carries as much weight in this discussion. The only thing it proves is that people who believe in a god are not imbeciles.

Answer 8

Tralse

Answer 9

It would be very convenient if questions such as this could be resolved by a "true or false" answer, but they are rather more complex than that.

Answer 10

JonJon beat me to it, but he's right.
Spinoza's concept wins.

I don't think G-d is a cosmic babysitter, checking individual diapers all day.

Basically, G-d is NOT a co-pilot!

(Always cringe at that bumper sticker.)

He gave you the intelligence to drive so you wouldn't NEED a co-pilot just to go to 7-11!