I came across a little quote by Albert Einstein recently and it got me thinking. Here’s the quote,
“If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I will be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.”
So things of immaterial nature cannot be owned by any one person, God alone can claim possession of the immaterial. Truth is an immaterial, for lack of a better word, thing. Men can know truth, but they cannot know it fully, why? Because full knowledge belongs to the Lord, and men have no control over the immaterial. What controls a person’s thoughts? Other thoughts, so though the thoughts are the person’s, they must use something immaterial to control something else of immaterial nature.
These immaterial truths, such as logic, mathematics, and morality, cannot be claimed by any person, society, culture, time or, religion, only God can control them. Man cannot change the truth, man cannot change that which is right or wrong, God alone has the ability to do so. But does He? No, because he stands by his own laws, by the logic of his making.
So even though the immaterial effects the material (thoughts effect action), the material can do nothing to change, or manipulate the immaterial. No actions that take place in time and space can change anything of immaerial nature, and not any immaterial thing can change such immaterial truths that were ste in place by God.
Comments please, I’m not sure how this all sounds.
