According to Max Jammer, author of "Einstein and Religion" Einstein believed in an impersonal God as expressed by Einstein in his paper "Science and Religion".
Einstein was a deist, in that regard. However it never fails to amaze me that a man who could think so logically, and accept that a Creator does exist, could not conceive of a Creator sufficiently powerful or willing to interact with His own creation.
Einstein was not a particularly advanced thinker when it came to philosophy and theology. He never professed to be. His writings on the subject were fairly pedestrian. For instance, this, extract from Einsteins "Science and Religion", itself an article that appears in Einstein's Ideas and Opinions, pp.41 - 49.
Einstein asked the same questions as any person who has only given fairly shallow thought to God. (How could God allow evil to exist? etc etc)
Einstein clearly does not understand the reality of Christ, or the Holy Spirit either. Any person, scientist or peasant, who accepts Christ into their heart will feel the full truth and reality of the Holy Spirit. We sense it as readily as we sense heat to our fingers.
It is as real as anything ever proven by science. We trust our senses to accept scientific fact, so we uses our inner senses and the same brain to accept the truth of the Holy Spirit.
Science cannot prove "love" exists either.
I am a scientist and engineer. For 25 years I was a deist also. Then one day after hearing the words of Christ I decided to "investigate" and consider with an open mind the possibility Christ is truly the Messiah. With some skepticism but sincerity I asked Christ to show me he was real and come into my heart. In that moment I learned one of the greatest things about life and nature and something that no current scientific system of philosophy has ever been able to explain, we can commune with God therough the Holy Spirit by accepting Christ as our Saviour. Christ was completely 100% truthful.
Any scientist who denies the existence of the Holy Spirit or God is simply blind to a possibility that has already been actually proven personally to 100's of millions of people, except those particular scientists.
The argument, by the way, is not between science and christianity. The debate that roils is between materialistic atheists hiding behind science and religions, other than Christinity. I have no argument with science. I know the particular truths about Christianity that are necessary. Science is in the dark, so far, on that matter.
The problem today for such atheists however is that science is more than ever proving the Bible to have ever more credibility and proving the atheists wrong.
The universe as we know it is statisically practically impossible to exist in a form that would support life, if it were left to simply random "natural" processes.
clarification to this "Einstein was not a particularly advanced thinker when it came to philosophy and theology.",, should read "Einstein was not a particularly advanced thinker when it came to philosophy of life and theology."
Most of the religious nuts here are "Christians". Many even say that Catholics are not Christians! Boy, is Bacon rolling over in his grave ...
If you were really a scientist/engineer, you would know that "natural" processes are not random.
What about a scientist that opines that their may or may not be a God?
Wolf
The internet has many places where personal letters to many different people by Einstein have been posted.
Those letters reveal that the scientist could not really be characterized as even a deist.