[allmendream]

“the universe at large, like God, is eternal, and that the creation stories we read in antique literature refer to the creation of our own living world and local environment, and not to the creation of the entire universe”

Smacks of Mormonism to me.

ONE BIG PROBLEM.

The Bible. “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth”. It doesn't say “in the beginning there was no beginning for the Heavens always existed.”

Seems you are putting creation as equivalent to the creator, and removing the creator as the actual creator - sort of a coexistant facet of eternal reality - but not the creator of that universe and reality.

[wendy1946]

The Bible. “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth”.

Long story, but in the beginning on this planet you couldn't see stars due to the nature of the pre-flood system. Again the idea of God creating the entire universe 6000 years ago doesn't pass any sort of a sniff test for basic logic and I assume God created us logic-capable for a reason.