One of the most puzzling scientists to figure out is Albert Einstein. He was born and raised in a Jewish home and taught the Bible from his youth. There came a point when he began to question what he had been taught. This led to him identifying himself as an agnostic. He vehemently denied that he was an atheist. In G.S. Viereck’s book, “Glimpses of the Great,” Einstein responded to a question about whether or not he believed in God.

“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the force that sways the constellations.”

There are many quotes attributed to Einstein that he never said. I tried to find a few that he did say. “I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.” “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” “Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe, a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”

One can only hope he made peace with God before he died, but there is no doubt he believed in a higher power that created the universe. Some call it an intelligent designer; it did not just happen on its own. All his studies and intellect kept leading him to God. When you find God, you learn that He has provided a way for us to spend eternity with him, and that way is Jesus Christ.