Infinite Time Before Eternity Is Where God Came From
Where did God come from? God came from That-"Stuff"-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time before eternity began.
In seminary more than 50 years ago, I read that the ancient conceptualization of eternity was not endless time, but time out-of-mind. That is, "eternity" is a length of time that is incomprehensible, a period that indeed has an end, but whose end is so distant and incomprehensible that it is unconceivable to our human imaginations. Something "eternal" may still have an end, a finish at the "end of the age" of whatever age it is, but eternity was considered by the ancients to be FINITE, only "never-ending" to our line of thought.
Not so the infinite time before eternity. While eternity is a packet of time, a distinct moment in the infinite, truly endless span beyond its beginning and end, infinite time stretches out both before and after eternity's hiccup event. The hiccup is a necessary moment of movement in what That-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time is doing. What That-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time is doing is evolving Itself from Its assumption of being manifest into material, actualized manifestation. No-thing is becoming Thing, the Formless . . . Form. Same stuff, just different state.
The process of developing the nature and characteristics of That-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time in manifesting forms of Itself takes a few, even for It. There is transition and choice to be made--a long setup, a lot of failures, and a lot of patience is required.
I have resolved that THIS world we are in and of is an image of THAT world, for we are from and are becoming that one. It has become us, that we might become it . . . in this state. Whatever was in the infinite time before eternity became conscious--conscious of self, conscious of what it is, conscious of what had transpired in its becoming Itself, conscious of all that It could be, and conscious of Its own imperfection in not being manifest. "Oops, I'm missing something." All that That-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time would be if It were all that It could be was imagined, assumed to exist as the Milta (Miltha). To God, the Milta absolutely exists--has ALWAYS existed, for the Milta is That-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time manifest.
This was BEFORE the beginning of eternity. The Milta is the Son of God Who CREATES all things coming into existence in eternity (Genesis 1:1 Alexander). The Milta is their beginning and their end--all things are for Him, through Him, and are to Him. The Milta, the Unmanifest-No-thing-In-The-Infinite-Span-Of-Time Manifest, is the Purpose of Creation. It is with God, and It IS God. And as of right now in eternity, It is incomplete. We are trying Its patience, which in eternity . . . is finite.