I understand that, with our concept of time, we look at everything as having a beginning and an end. If anything exists, even the universe, we figure it must have began at some time (and will eventually end at some future time). The only way I can start to grasp the idea that there was nothing before God is to consider that time itself had not yet began . . . that God preceded time. So, the idea that God came into being at some time and then created everything . . and so there must have been something prior to God . . . it doesn't apply, as there was no "time" prior to God.
Consider the idea of "time travel", where people imagine that time is this existing continuem and that somewhere/somehow previous points in time (or future points in time) exist on some plane and might be visited. But, if you don't accept that concept of time, and instead think that there is no visiting the past, because its gone . . and no way to visit the future, because it hasn't occurred yet and thus doesn't exist . . then you have differing ideas of what we mean when we say "time".
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