OP isn't very wise. If the Big Bang never happened and this theory was right, then that would be a severe blow to the existence of the Abrahamic God, OP, which I know you severely believe in. Read the full article here: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html
A eternal universe would be that there is no beginning and there will be never be an end, ending the notion that there is a beginning and end to all things, as said in the religious text, while also eliminating the Abrahamic God from the picture.
A eternal universe would be that there is no beginning and there will be never be an end, ending the notion that there is a beginning and end to all things, as said in the religious text, while also eliminating the Abrahamic God from the picture.
Perhaps OP doesn't have a correct view. It is very difficult to come to correct conclusions about things so far reaching. However...
God exists in eternity. Perhaps in some ways the universe is eternal, as well.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and void."
The Hebrew word that the word "was" comes from can be interpreted as "became."
There was a war in Heaven, the Revelation tells us. It doesn't say when. Much of the Revelation covers times other than the end. The war was between the angels that followed the devil, and the angels that followed God, led by the Archangel Michael.
It may just be that this war in heaven is what made the earth become formless and empty. "And the earth became formless and void." The material of the universe coalesced together, into a ball that was considered as the earth by God. The beginning would be the original beginning of the type of material and energy in our universe. The 6 days of creation would be God remaking it better than it had been before.
In the creation 6 days, if you read it slowly, you will see that the separations of the waters that are below the "firmament" (the sky) from the waters above could easily be the thing that put the materials into the sky, materials that God later turned into the sun, moon and stars.
