Gods Sabbath

T HE S OURCE OF E VERYTHING

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in grasping this fact because to be infinite is to be totally limit less. It means that there is not a single thing which God’s pow er could not accomplish, nor complex plan that His intelligence could not conceive. Such limitless ability is incomprehensible to us. In order to gain a faint idea of God’s infinite capacity, let us consider some of His achievements in the universe. The celestial body with which we are most familiar is our planet earth. Ours may seem like a huge planet, but it is, rela tively speaking, a very small body in space. The sun—the center of our solar system—is considerably larger than planet earth, having a diameter of 1,391,986 kilometers (864,964 miles). It weighs 2.19 x 10 27 or 2,190,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and is 333,400 times the earth’s mass! But there are other stars in the universe, which are even larger than this. For exam ple, both Betelgeuse and Antares are far bigger than our sun. Antares has a diameter 560 times that of the sun, while Betel geuse is even greater, varying from 600 to 900 diameters. This means that the diameter of this huge star at its maximum size is 1,252,787,900 kilometers (778,467,600 miles). The radius therefore is 626,393,950 kilometers (389,233,800 miles). To help us appreciate the vast size of this star, let us imagine that Be telgeuse was positioned exactly where our sun is now. If so, then

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Earth