Was Einstein a Christian?

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If you were able to ask a room full of people what certain words meant, you would find that there were many different understandings about each word you presented. For example "cup". As soon as the word is sounded, the imagination finds a definition. The "cup" you thought of might be floral and delicate, or white and ornate with a large handle, or plain, or solid, or a modern thing with a small handle. Or …

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…which the Bible attaches to it. This, logically, leads us to the conclusion that, despite his intelligence and outstanding achievements, Einstein could not have found what the Bible calls a "saving faith". It is therefore incorrect for Christians, as they sometimes do, to claim that Einstein was a Christian, since the definition which he attached to the word "God" was at complete variance to that which the Bible uses. One cannot have it both ways.