VI. JESUS AS CREATOR AND SELF-EXISTING
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TAKING the Bible as our authority,—and we have no other document upon which to base any knowledge of either Jehovah or Jesus,—we find that the God of the Old Testament, Jehovah, claims to be the creator of the universe.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Gen. 1:1.)
"To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things." (Isa. 40:25—26.)
"Thus saith Jehovah, thy redeemer, . . I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself." (Isa. 44:24.)
"Thus saith God the Lord (El Yahveh) he that created the heavens, and stretched them out: he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath
