If one wishes to play semantics, then one can use the same argument as Stephen Hawkins, who says that to ask how did the beginnning begin is a foolish question because one cannot ask what happened just before since there was no "before". And so God could not have caused the beginning.
To say that "God always was" is to play the same game, since there cannot be a "was" without time.
To say that "God always was" is to play the same game, since there cannot be a "was" without time.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
