What to say when somebody asks about the big bang

[Arkilogue]

That is very close to what I have found/hammered out, didn't even know there was a term for it: Panentheism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Ancient Greek πᾶν pân, "all", ἐν en, "in" and Θεός Theós, "God") is the belief that the divine interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond time and space. Unlike pantheism, which holds that the divine and the universe are identical,[1] panentheism maintains a distinction between the divine and non-divine and the significance of both.[2]


In my working model: God is an infinite absolute substance (like an "ocean" with no top, bottom or sides) which self cavitates (like a bubble) into an infinite number of finite relative spaces. The unified properties of the original infinite get spread out and individuated inside each voided space bubble (universe) like the individual color from bent white light.

The original unified Infinite (GOD) still exists above and below the infinite number of spatially finite universes but it had to sacrifice omni-presence for the infinite spaces of creation (universes) to exist at all and they are all patterned in the exact same manner but develop differently.

Interesting thing about dividing an extant infinite, no matter where you cut through it as a plane (to create infinite spherical universes at the same time), it is divided exactly in half. If you were to mythologize the original Infinite as a human body, you would say creation sprang from the persons navel.  Look up Vishnu.

It's called Tzimtzum, you'll love it! It's an old middle eastern recipe...