A question of Holy Spirit and I.Q

Recently I've been reading Walter Isaacson's interesting autobiography of Albert Einstein : His Life and Universe. Isaacson takes his readers all the way through Einstein's life, from his childhood in Germany to his rejection of German citizenship to become Swiss and on to his flight from Germany to the U. S. He also discusses in non-technical terms the wonderful contributions Einstein made to unproven physics in the twentieth century and beyond.

Einstein is the icon for genius throughout the world. Few folks in the last century have made as great an effect on human thought as he. Not only did he change the way scientists view the physical world, but his discovery of relativity and his contributions to quantum mechanics -- together with several other notables notables -- have changed the way we observe the world around us. These discoveries have made us query whether there's and, indeed, if there are any constants in the universe.

Take comfort. Even the most famous scientists of the 21st century are still endeavoring to pull all these discoveries together into some complete theory. Meanwhile, let's take a short look at this thing called genius. What is it, after all? And how should we evaluate it?Normal intelligence quotients range from 85 to 115. According to these studies, maybe 1% of the people in the world have an IQ above 135. These figures are based upon a the people in France by psychologist Alfred Binet and his collaborator physician Theodore Simon. Since then, the test has been refined again and again to give us the current Stanford-Binet 5. Each of these factors is tested in two separate domains, verbal and nonverbal.

The results of these tests have been severely and strongly criticized. Notable is the deceased Stephen Jay Gould's book The Mismeasure of Man. Such tests, he writes, have been used to promote racial bias. He further challenges the premise that heredity influences intelligence.

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Since the 1940s psychologists talked about factors other than intelligence, but it wasn't until 1995 that the term "emotional intelligence" became a buzz word. That was when Daniel Goleman published his book Emotional Intelligence--Why it can matter more than IQ. In his book Goleman argues that idolizing IQ is far too narrow a way to look at humans. He defines emotional intelligence in terms of self-awareness, altruism, personal motivation, empathy and the ability to love and be loved. It can be developed.

Wow! When I first came than IQ. In his book Goleman disagrees that this is precisely what the Bible tells us the Holy Spirit does in the life of believers. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

When I read Einstein's biography I came to realize that although he may have been extremely intelligent from an intellectual viewpoint--he was a genius after all--he still had a long ways to go when it came to emotional intelligence. You may enjoy it. Meanwhile, I suggest that you also read and meditate further on the Apostle Paul's counsel: "live by the disdainful, inciting and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature" (Galatians 5:16). ???

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Rodney Howard Browne, born on 12 June 1961 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and was raised in the Eastern Cape and Transkei, is a charismatic Christian preacher and evangelist who has resided in Tampa, Florida, USA since the mid-1990s. He is pastor of The River at Tampa Bay, a church which he and his wife founded in 1996, and heads Revival Ministries International.