Our finite minds cannot comprehend the Infinite without the Holy Spirit. A simple question that cannot be answered scientifically is infinity into the past. It doesn't make sense, and it defies logic and rational thought. Let's say the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe and evolution in general. Well, what caused that? And, whatever caused the Big Bang, what caused that, and on and on it goes into infinity past. God is eternal--that's the simple yet profound answer the Bible provides.
You say, "Let's say the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe and evolution in general. Well, what caused that? And, whatever caused the Big Bang, what caused that, and on and on it goes into infinity past. "
I would answer, God, who is from everlasting to everlasting caused that.
You say, "God is eternal--that's the simple yet profound answer the Bible provides".
I would answer that "how God can be personal, living, loving, relational and good without his nature being temporal?" is at least as mysterious and problematic a question as " How can God be temporal and be without a beginning?" And postulating eternality to God does not really explain "From everlasting to everlasting I am God."
You are still stuck with having to explain time existing in the past and having no beginning. The
allegedly "
eternal" God has been
timelessly existing imminently within beginningless
everlasting time. He must either have created
beginningless time with a beginningless everlasting past which was
outside himself, or this beginningless time was as much His nature as holiness and omnipotence.
"What is the exact meaning of temporal?
a. :
of or relating to time as distinguished from space. b. : of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time : chronological. temporally adverb."