Being possesses intellectual structure

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This is from Ratzinger’s* Introduction to Christianity*

p. 152 To put it more precisely, in the old Pythagorean saying about God who practices geometry there is expressed that insight into the mathematical structure of being which leans to understand being as having been thought, as intellectually structured; there is also expressed the perception that even matter is not simply non-sense that eludes understanding, that it to bears in itself truth and comprehensibility that make intellectual comprehension possible.
Einstein: intelligence so superior is revealed that in comparison all the significance of human thinking…completely worthless
Einstein did not accept the idea of a personal God.
Pythagoreans, Einstein, and James can see the math, being-thought-ness of things; however, not personal.
p. 153 James Jeans: “We discover that the universe shows traces of a planning and controlling power which has something in common with our own individual mind
 
I hope I’m not too far off base, but spirituality trumps the intellect anytime. My intellect has been destroyed, but it does not matter in the least since I have a Good Spirit that has taken its place. The Spirit tells me everything I need to know, and then some.

What did Einstein know about spirituality?

LOVE! 🙂
 
Jim_Baur said:
This is from Ratzinger’s* Introduction to Christianity*

p. 152 To put it more precisely, in the old Pythagorean saying about God who practices geometry there is expressed that insight into the mathematical structure of being which leans to understand being as having been thought, as intellectually structured; there is also expressed the perception that even matter is not simply non-sense that eludes understanding, that it to bears in itself truth and comprehensibility that make intellectual comprehension possible.
Einstein: intelligence so superior is revealed that in comparison all the significance of human thinking…completely worthless
Einstein did not accept the idea of a personal God.
Pythagoreans, Einstein, and James can see the math, being-thought-ness of things; however, not personal.
p. 153 James Jeans: “We discover that the universe shows traces of a planning and controlling power which has something in common with our own individual mind
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It’s just my opinion, but I have found that there is no need for a “personal” God. So many feel let down when their prayers go unanswered (and please don’t use “He just said no.”) after decades of loving and fervent worship that they lose faith. I come at this from personal experience with my mother, who was a faithful Catholic all her life.
 
Jim_Baur said:
T (…) Einstein, (…) can see the math, being-thought-ness of things; however, not personal.
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Although it saddens me a bit now, I do find that this to be something Einstein held to be… going so far upon one occasion to state that he may be more of an agnostic… he did however, seem to believe that there was/is a God. (Guess he knows now better that we do 😃 )
Of course, I was in step with this until my conversion too… doesn’t take much to see the light if one will open one’s eyes 🙂
Robert_Sock said:
(…)What did Einstein know about spirituality?
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Einstein knew a lot more about spirtuality than most given him credit for 😃
simpletoremember.com/articles/a/einstein/
– 23.The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment.** In this sense, and in this sense alone**, I rank myself among profoundly religious men… (AE)
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Now, it may not be in the same philosophical note as that of St Aquinas, nor that of St. Albert the Great; however, AE did know something about spirituality.
 
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I’m impressed! Thanks! 👍
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there are many more quotes by AE that I really like however, these are some of my favorites:
11.Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
12.When the solution is simple, God is answering.
13.God does not play dice with the universe.
14.God is subtle but he is not malicious.
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I think that AE and St. Albert must have the most fascinating conversations as these are very common thoughts between the two (of course, St. Albert wouldn’t have used god in the plural 🙂 )
 
I will take** #2** for this Sunday!
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Is Religion in need of clay and a washing? Or, more like Paul’s blinding, perhaps it is science that needs to find a healing?
Pray that they see the Master is present and He is still teaching. Where are we on the road to Emmaus?
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Einstein knew a lot more about spirtuality than most given him credit for 😃
simpletoremember.com/articles/a/einstein/

Now, it may not be in the same philosophical note as that of St Aquinas, nor that of St. Albert the Great; however, AE did know something about spirituality.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict has expressed concern over relevant morality. Does this place a bane upon personal revelation?
Is it the light in our souls, the intellect of the heart, that opens our eyes to God?

Then when this vision is strengthened it moves from an emotional impulse to an inner, rational relationship with God, One in Three Persons.
Is St. Alberic the pillar of such understanding?
 
mkoopman said:
I will take** #2** for this Sunday!
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Is Religion in need of clay and a washing? Or, more like Paul’s blinding, perhaps it is science that needs to find a healing?
Pray that they see the Master is present and He is still teaching. Where are we on the road to Emmaus?

Pope Emeritus Benedict has expressed concern over relevant morality. Does this place a bane upon personal revelation?
Is it the light in our souls, the intellect of the heart, that opens our eyes to God?

Then when this vision is strengthened it moves from an emotional impulse to an inner, rational relationship with God, One in Three Persons.
Is St. Alberic the pillar of such understanding?
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I think that on whole, neither the Faith, nor the Reason, need their eyes opened, for they walk hand in hand, there are those that on a personal level, need to (IMHO) have their eyes opened:

Herein I follow the teachings of St. Albert the Great - Universal Doctor of the Church, Teacher to St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Pope Pius XII said : "May St. Albert, who in his own very difficult times proved by his wonderful work that science and Faith can flourish homniously in men, through his powerfull intercession with God, arouse the hearts and minds of those who devot themselves to the science, to a peacful and orderly use of the natural forces, the laws of which, divinely established, they investigate and seek after. "
 
Human **“BEING” **is love structured rational being.

As Genesis proclaims, we were made in the image of God.
 
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