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Einstein held two antithetical truth-claims in his mind simultaneouly. One was really true while the other was really false. As pride is offended by true truth, it selectively rejects it and postulates the false truth-claim as truth. That is what Einstein did. In fact, all positivist materialists and idealist pantheists find themselves in this untenable position.

I'm not convinced that Einstein did this. For one thing, it appears from all accounts that he was a man of deep personal humility — which accords with his constant reference to the awesome, not-humanly-fathomable mystery that lies at the root of the Universe. It doesn't square that he, by all reports a scrupulously honest man, would be inclined to make judgments on the basis of personal pride.

Whatever the case, I don't think Einstein was either a positivist materialist, or an idealist pantheist. I have no handy label for him.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful insights, dearest sister in Christ!

I don't have a label for Einstein either.

And I strongly agree that his humility comes through his many quotes - and when he acted pridefully concerning the cosmological constant, he confessed it and repented openly. If he were not humble at the root, he couldn't have.

I do find it particularly illuminating that the two most influential physicists of all time - Newton and Einstein - both clearly recognized that God IS even though their profession of Who He IS was woefully uninformed.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: - Romans 1:20

God's Name is I AM.