Abstract can be defined as existing in thought or as an idea or concept but not having a physical or concrete existence. “abstract concepts such as love or beauty”. Abstract can also be described as relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures. An abstract can also be consider something theoretically or separately from (something else that can be verified with physical senses or reproduced under scientifically controlled and measurable conditions) physical reality.
Abstract is from a Latin word meaning “pulled away, detached,” and the basic idea is of something detached from physical, or concrete, reality. It is frequently used of ideas, meaning that they don’t have a clear applicability to real life, and of art, meaning that it doesn’t pictorially represent reality.
Perception of God as an Entity requires abstract thinking; Abstract thinking is the ability to understand concepts that are real, such as freedom or vulnerability, but which are not directly tied to concrete physical objects and experiences. Abstract thinking is the ability to absorb information from our senses and make connections to the wider world. Other words for abstract thinking includes, reasoning, systematic thought, thinking, conceptualizing, critical thinking, free thinking, and logical thinking. “Concrete” is the opposite of “abstract”, so the opposite of “abstraction” is logically “concretization”.
Abstract intelligence can be described as the ability to carry on abstract thinking. It is a measure of one’s ability to reason and understand complex concepts and assimilate new information beyond previous experience. It is independent of educational and cultural background. Abstract intelligence refers to one’s ability to carry on abstract thinking. The study, in which monkeys apply rules about “same” and “different” to a myriad of images, shows that the prefrontal cortex — the part of the brain directly behind the eyes — works on the abstract assignment rather than simply recalling the pictures. The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum initiates and coordinates movement and regulates temperature. Other areas of the cerebrum enable speech, judgment, thinking and reasoning, problem-solving, emotions and learning.
Creativity is the highest form of intelligence because it goes beyond knowledge recall and extends into knowledge creation. “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is…empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self-kind of understanding.” Early studies investigating the relationship between intelligence and creativity showed that highly creative individuals are also of higher intelligence (Barron, 1963, 1969; Getzels & Jackson, 1962).
Empathy is a part of emotional intelligence. Empathy means the ability to understand or feel what another person is experiencing within their frame of reference. In the general scope of emotional intelligence, empathy is in self-awareness, social awareness, self-actualization, and transcendence. Empaths are highly sensitive individuals, who have a keen ability to sense what people around them are thinking and feeling. Psychologists may use the term empath to describe a person that experiences a great deal of empathy, often to the point of taking on the pain of others at their own expense (the concept [Entity: Jesus Christ] of Redeemer taking up the sins, infirmities, and pain of mankind on Himself).
Jesus Christ is the logical concretization of the concept or Entity known as God. This requires the highest form of intelligence, abstract thinking, which can only be validated by the Entity Himself (faith in God, a measure that is given by God Himself in different quantity to different individuals). An individual does not have this highest form of intelligence (wisdom), unless they are given, by the Giver of all gifts, Yeshua. Furthermore, even those without physical sensory perception of the Concretization of Yeshua have been blessed, as recorded in the gospel of John 20:29; Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” Whether God is real or abstract to you, you are blessed.
