Oooooook Redleg, but somebody already asked the question..."And before God?"...Is just human nature, as it's ceating "ideal beings" that lives in all things or in a plane where you can't see it or go to, so you can justify moral points of view, power over the earth and have the tools to say what is heaven and how to get to it.
If you still want to believe in the idea of GOD then do so, but be advised to not do such question that don't have answer. Sometime perhaps you will understand that the science have discovered that time is just another dimension (like longitude) so perhaps some day the scientists will find the answer to that question, just to discover that they are in an endless road again or to discover that before or after not always existed, that there was sometime in the live of universe when time didn't existed...