0 = 1. A way of thinking about existence.

I don't know if this is an original thought or if others have thought about this.

I was thinking about existence today in a way that can be described by 0=1

One of the questions people often ask is how does something exist out of nothing?
As Christians, we believe God created the universe. Others have other explanations, but what was the initial cause? Why does something exist rather than nothing?

Many people have at some point looked at life through a depressing lens and thought that in a way nothing exists. I don't know all the details off the top of my head, but I seem to remember Keirkegaard and Sarte saying things about whether or not Finite existence has any meaning if it doesn't connect in some way to infinity.
What do our actions mean if they are all just a temporal exercise that will disappear into nothingness after we die and our works have faded from the earth?

Rather than trying to make the finite (1) somehow into the infinite (∞) ie, 1 = ∞
Why not make 0 = 1.
If 0 = 1, even sometimes, then it's perfectly reasonable for nothing to become something.
Well, 0 is sometime 1. For example, if nothing existed... absolutely nothing... how many nothings would there be? There would be 1. 1 nothing. Therefore, 0 = 1.
So, following this logic, the Buddhist saying that everything is 1 actually makes some sense.
Now, there is no need to try to make 1 into infinity because we are already talking about 1 infinite object. 0 = 1 * ∞
So, creation ex nihilo is actually perfectly logical...

But how can 0 ever equal 1? God decided that it should for an instant and then, poof... everything that was nothing became something.