Is the Bible True?, page-574

This differs from DR's idea that the creation is also eternal.

This ones pretty simply, Mr Gordon. If there was a beginning to Creation then before that moment or event God could not have been God. One of the titles or names of God is The Creator, an unchanging God can't be the Creator one day and not the next and a God without a Creation is not a God. If you accept that God is eternal then you have no choice but to accept that Creation is also eternal and without beginning.

And: “At the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. The universe and life came into being by changing from one form to another, so beginning in the Biblical sense speaks to the change that occurred to a preexisting substance that produced our universe.

They will perish, but you will remain; and just like a garment, they will all wear out, The universe has formed over and over countless times. Krishna likened it to a breath, the universe breathes out and then in over trillions of years and then is made anew. The human has ever existed in potential and through countless universal breaths, but God has remained a constant, unchanging spiritual essence.

His idea finds no support in the Scriptures. In fact it does very clearly, in both the teachings of Krishna and the teachings of Baha'u'llah. It may have also been a part of the Jewish Scriptures at one stage and has been lost to time. The Bible is not necessarily a complete work. It is a compilation of bits of various religions from that area.