NB: THIS IS A THEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT NOT MEANT AS SCIENTIFIC. THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME AGREEMENT HERE IN THE TWO. THESE VIEWS ARE NOT FRINGE BELIEFS BUT FAIRLY WIDELY ACCEPTED.
The maxim that out of nothing, nothing comes is valid. God is not a thing but the Creator of all things. But we must not jump to the conclusion that everything was created or had a beginning. Then there would be a time when nothing existed and that means nothing would exist now. The fact that something exists really proves something must be eternal. Only that which is within the time-space continuum has a beginning. God isn’t as its Creator and is therefore eternal or without beginning.
All events and effects have causes. Even the Big Bang had a cause outside itself. Everything that begins to exist has a cause; how can God be the First Cause if He began or was created? God is eternal and that means without a beginning point or cause: He’s the First Cause. Aristotle settled this issue and called God the First Cause that caused all things to begin.
It’s impossible to cross infinity, to say everything had a beginning is just that; it's faulty logic. A caused B caused C caused D ….. (AT SOME POINT WE RUN OUT OF LETTERS). Infinite regress is impossible philosophically, mathematically, and logically. Every chain of events has a beginning point and a cause. God is not an event or an effect, but the uncaused cause, which is possible philosophically and logically. So you cannot say that there was no beginning or creation point when God began it all.
If someone or something made God, God would not be the Creator but a creature and be caused Himself and not the First Cause. If someone made God you could ask who made him? and so forth ad Infinitum. God says He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end Himself! Even time had a beginning and is part of creation for God created it because it's a corollary of space and matter. Many things just are: love, truth, logic, justice; where did they come from? God is love, true, just, and logical. “In the beginning was the Word” [Logos or logic, understanding, intelligence, law, order, design, purpose, design].
Science, not philosophy or religion has come up with the theory that time would not exist had it not been for the existence of both space and matter. That time began therefore at the big bang when the time-space continuum began. This was postulated (some may say speculated) by physicist Stephen Hawking who wrote The Brief History of Time supposedly outlining the beginning and end of time. Before the Big Bang, there was no time! Even the Bible (cf 2 Tim. 2:9; Titus 1:2) says that time began or had a beginning.
According to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity space and time are interwoven and connected. It is said that at absolute zero no time exists and that after the so-called “heat death” of the cosmos that it will too. Also, that time began at the Big Bang and someday will cease to be. I do not claim to be a scientist but am well-read on the subject. This is a lay opinion and meant to be a philosophical/theological answer, not a scientistic one. I regard the Bible as the final arbiter of truth and rule of faith for the Christian.
I refer all questions to The Nature of Time and Space by Stephen Hawking. I did not intend to make a direct quote but what science has come to believe.: “Almost everyone now believes that the universe and time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang.” (Page 60).
In conclusion, God’s name is I AM with no predicate (I AM WHO I AM WHO I AM ….) God is whatever He needs or desires to be and is complete in Himself, self-contained, and self-existent. (cf. Acts 17:25).
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