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THE AUTHOR OF LIFE 21
2 To many minds it seems difficult to realize that
Jehovah God is without a beginning, that he had an
infinite existence before ever we came to life . But
is that impossible? What about space and time?
Where does space begin? When did time begin?
The science of mathematics knows such a thing as
infinity ; and it should be no more difficult to accept
that God always was than that time and space
go on forever, into the past and into the future .
It gives us some idea of God's eternal past to remember
that in 1919, when the hundred-inch telescope
on Mount Wilson, California, was the most
powerful in the world, space was penetrated by
human sight to a distance of five hundred million
light years. That represents the distance light
would travel in five hundred million of our solar
years . Before all those five hundred million
years Jehovah God was . But, measured by creation,
that is not the limit of his past existence .
Now with the 200-inch telescope atop Mount
Palomar, California, the distance penetrated into
space has been doubled, and the discernible universe
has eight times the volume of the one disclosed
by the Mount Wilson telescope . As the scientists
who believe in relativity now tell us, the universe
is expanding, even blowing up . According
to the accepted theory the universe which we
know began expanding 1,800 million years ago
from the single, then created mass of densely
packed matter. Even if we take that theory for
what it is worth, then before all that time the ever-
2 . What helps us to realize that God is without a beginning?