which is still something that had to come into being at some point.
Which is the point
Nothing isn't really nothing
Nothing is just a word we describe something we can't fanthom, dimensionless, that's why physicists came up with something from nothing, which is basically a singularity which is something dimensionless
Nothing is just a another word for dimensionless aka consciousness, mind, thinking, thought, spirit, etc.
Physicists don't like it because it suggests the material came from the non-material, mind, thought, thinking which suggests a reality beyond this one
Non-extended(A Dot=Dimensionless) leading to the extended(a line=infinite dimensional, the a closed line = dimensional)
That's why I suggested ontological mathematics to you
You say you're a lawyer so it should appeal to you due to logic
Ontological mathematics claims mathematics guarantees God exists...as well as a Devil