[wendy1946]

Like I say, you’re looking at conundrums whatever you do. The thing I’m proposing avoids the conundrums. In general the Bible cannot be taken 100% literally. There are any number of instances, particularly in the OT, where a basic story (e.g. the flood) is believable enough but a reader can take or leave the religious interpretation which travels along with it. Again the idea of God never figuring out that he needed to create a universe until some finite point in time does not pass a basic sniff test for logic from where I’m sitting.

[allmendream]

So nevermind where in the Bible it says “beginning” that wasn't literal. There was no beginning.

Nevermind in the Bible where it says God “created” that wasn't literal. The universe always existed.

Nevermind in the Bible where it says Gods ways are not our ways, YOU know perfectly well the mind of God and align your acceptance or rejection of scientific theory upon your ‘understanding’.

Your ‘proposal’ raises a “conundrum” right from its DIRECT contradiction of the VERY FIRST LINE of the Bible.

Amusing!