(July 24, 2016 at 7:56 am)Stimbo Wrote: Scriptures say nothing about reality existing before time began, so you can't know any of that from studies of them. So I ask again: how do you know all this?
You are right because the Bible is not a treaties on metaphysics. This doctrine comes from general revelation - the God of Classical Theism. In other words reason applied to experience under the assumption that reality is intelligible and reason is effective.