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but in God all is absolute. Eternity is not, as the 

 agnostic has it, time raised to an infinite power, no 

 more than the attributes of God are human attributes 

 raised to an infinite power. God has existed from all 

 eternity, but He is, by His very nature, above time, and 

 before time, and beyond time, even infinite time. 

 To make God exist through infinite past time, be- 

 cause He has existed from all eternity, would be tanta- 

 mount to imposing on Him the conditions of cre- 

 ated things, and to degrading Him as much as do 

 the most extravagant of anthropomorphists. 



Infinite Space. 



And as God does not exist in time, so He does 

 not exist in space. Infinite space, like infinite time, 

 is a contradiction in terms. If there were nothing 

 to be measured, if material objects could be anni- 

 hilated, space would disappear. For space is not 

 an independent entity, as agnostics suppose, not a 

 kind of a huge box, which was created for the re- 

 ception of material things, but the necessary and 

 concomitant result of the creation of matter, of 

 what is limited and capable of measurement. And 

 as God is above and before and beyond time, so is 

 He likewise above and before and beyond space. 

 As time began only when God uttered His creative 

 fiat, so space had no existence until the creation of 

 the material universe. Neither space nor time, 

 therefore, can be used as a foundation on which to 

 base an argument against creation, or the existence 

 of a First Cause, for both space and time imply 

 limitation, and God, the Absolute, is above and in- 



