For more on how six days from the inception space/time coordinates is some fifteen billion years from our space/time coordinates based on relativity and inflationary theory, here is an article by Jewish physicist Gerald Schroeder:
Gorgeous link. Thanks.
I absolutely agree with Schroeder and particularly relate to quotes from Nachmanides, though "nothing" was something imo. But what? Ask string theorists.
. Kol yemot ha-olam makes utterly perfect sense to me--all the ages before and after this moment are contained in the Now. His "speck," imo, was/is consciousness (God), which decided to create creation by enlivening it with energy (also God). It was not a somber moment when God begat the world. The decision was The Word. I like to think that the word was Love. Or, Yes.
Zen scholar Alan Watts wrote, "The Universe is a celebration of love and delight that, were it otherwise, would simply not go on happening."
The promise of Christianity is love. Love one another. And yet I see such hatred and harshness and nastiness in churches, I simply cannot fathom how they attract people of good will.
BTW, Alamo_Girl, please ping me when these topics of time and reality arise. I don't want to miss your offerings or those of bb.