You Can’t Divide One and Be Left With Anything Whole
Perhaps there’s only one truth though versions of it exist within each and every one of us
My identity is deeply connected to my spirituality, and without it — without God — I feel lost. Knowing God exists should be enough for me but it’s not. I feel like there is so much more that I do not know and that God would want me to seek them out and seeking has never been a problem. I love learning new things but whenever I try to learn about the different beliefs and the nature of God and gods, I often find myself in a crisis.
There are so many ideas and theories, and it gets confusing because I can relate to many of those beliefs except the belief that there is no God.
In 1929, a New York Rabbi named Herbert S. Goldstein sent Albert Einstein a telegram inquiring about his belief in God. He heard a Boston cardinal say that Einstein’s theory of relativity implied atheism.
Einstein removed all of Goldstein’s doubts.
He wrote that he did not believe in a personal God that intervened in human affairs but instead believed in the God of the 17th-century Dutch Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza.
He said, “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of…
