ABSTRACT
Throughout Scripture God is described as having neither beginning nor end. Thus the Psalmist declared: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. In the Bible the term olam is most frequently used to denote the concept of God's eternity. The concept of time as part of creation was later developed by the fifteenth-century Jewish philosopher Joseph Albo. According to the first-century philosopher Philo, the eternal God is everywhere and fills all things: God fills all things; He contains but is not contained. According to Saadiah Gaon in The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, it is a mistake to think that the eternal God emanated into the world: The third theory is held by those who maintain that the creator of the physical universe created it from his own substance.
