tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post5040286159570116886..comments2024-03-19T05:18:00.469-04:00Comments on Not Another Episcopal Church Blog: Einstein: There Are Only Two Ways to LiveUndergroundpewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-47259542914394004832010-10-05T18:01:51.048-04:002010-10-05T18:01:51.048-04:00Remember that although Einstein may have believed ...Remember that although Einstein may have believed in the "miraculous" to some degree, it was not in the same sense in which Christians do. Einstein clearly denied the existence of a personal Creator God. As he once said, "My god is Sinoza's god," and Baruch Spinoza was a man who clearly denied miracles in the truest sense of the word along with a persnal God working behind them. Einstein's idea of the miraculous was that which caused men to marvel and be awestruck, yet ultimately in the end had a rational/scientific explanation even though it might still have remained a mystery for the time being. This is not a true Biblical miracle. Jesus walking on water cannot be ultimately explained by any law of physics,and therfore would be rejected by Einstein.AWBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-23908331725925926452010-08-18T11:56:02.264-04:002010-08-18T11:56:02.264-04:00Well said Tim+.Well said Tim+.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-89489604544607546032010-08-18T11:47:59.670-04:002010-08-18T11:47:59.670-04:00Hi, Pewster, I always appreciate your extra midwee...Hi, Pewster, I always appreciate your extra midweek reflections after the Sunday sermon analyses.<br /><br />I like where you come down at the end of the piece. I had a very similar experience on a recent trip to L.A. I went to visit my parents' graves at a huge cemetery. Rolling hills full of graves every which way. <br /><br />It struck me that there is a complex story for every name in the place, and each of the lives in all the buildings and roads out as far as I could see, and again for every life in the whole world beyond my vision. Stupefying, really.<br /><br />There's either a unifying story or there's not. There's either a value and meaning to all those lives or else they're all meaningless accidents.<br /><br />Those who by faith see meaning to it all participate in a miracle, the love of God at once transcending and filling all the processes by which all things existed, exist and will exist. And God works miracles within our limits of time and space to help us through the stupefaction of transcendence.TLF+https://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-6306669112613682352010-08-18T09:18:04.216-04:002010-08-18T09:18:04.216-04:00You are correct, that absent Miracles, a rare Bibl...You are correct, that absent Miracles, a rare Biblical occurrence, the Divinity of God/Christ really doesn't exist. Likewise, the idea that God can't/won't do the miraculous today, is rather ludicrous.<br /><br />I tend to think of the miraculous as a Divine intervention in Human affairs which which demonstrates God's sovereignty. That is, the recipient of same is left being unable to either deny the miracle's existence or to explain it without resorting to the Divine. With that definition, Einstein's alternative "All things are miraculous" fails, it seems to me.<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com