A being who creates a space time continuum is obviously not bound to it. It may be the case that Eru is not bound to any space time continuum. If that were the case, the word 'beginning' would have no relevence to him as a being. Although it is impossible for us to conceptualize being without time and space since our bodily existence is calculated by time and space, the supreme being would not be subject to it. indeed, if he was subject to it, he wouldn't be supreme.
One thing that I think is funny or sad about explainations of the universe involving big bangs, or gods of gods of gods, is that even if they might be true, they are theorys that avoid the real issue. they pass the buck. "How did this stuff come to be?" "oh, this stuff came from this stuff." You can see where this would go, the question must follow - what about before that? and that question will never end if one is thinking from the viewpoint of time. So the only way I can see out of it is if something created time. Or maybe a better way to put it is that time emanates from the essence of something.
The Silmarillion starts "There was Eru." In many ways I don't thimk it would be too presumptuous to compare this to how The Bible references God as "I am." I think that is a powerful thing to think about.
Before time = God. "What was God doing?" and "where was he before time?" become very insignificant and foolish questions and the true reality of it is probably so far beyond our imaginations that to experience a glimpse of it would cause us to nonexist.
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