do we have a start date?
If so, does it pre-exist our current life?"
If so, does it pre-exist our current life?"
How would you answer these questions?
Here are thoughts that came to me starting with my favorite fact.
There is no Day 1 Eternal Life.
God declared: I am the Lord, I change not. (Malachi 3:6)*
Time is not knowable to the Eternal since time is a measure of change. God, Life, is ever present now. And Eternity, by definition, has no beginning or before and no ending or after.