It is more logical that matter had a beginning and will not return to the original state (original for matter that is).
The biggest argument for that is space. Even if there were a God, space will always be larger than God. Space is infinite, has no borders. From that, one must conclude that separation is the true reason matter was able to come about.
Natural, that means that energy is the source for matter, and as far as I know everyone is saying the same thing: energy does not get lost. That means it also does not need to get found, and matter's origin can then be placed with energy for which we do not seek an origin. With separation as a fundamental aspect, there will not be a return; there cannot be a return.
If we were to seek an origin for energy, then we end up with the Greek gods where Zeus is the current ruler, Cronus his father that Zeus dethroned, and Cronus had a father, too, and I forgot his name, showing you how important he was (i.e. they become less and less important for us in the Zeus reality). Like energy, we should not seek an origin for it. Even if there were an origin, in our material state we cannot find it.
It also means that we can indeed start a story with God. It needs, however, be told well and the author turns God into a Cyclops and that is never right of course. We shouldn't make fun of this, because scientists often have the same brain fart, too, where they like to end up seeing things as 1, indeed ignoring the fundamental separation that is so easy to see with the binary system of 1s and 0s only. None of the 1s in the binary system is 'the one' and this points yet again to our human brain of following the decimal system into spots where the decimal system has not good footing. The 1 in the decimal system is the winner, the group, the first, the leader, the nation, the collective. As soon as we recognize that 1 can mean more than 1 thing, we can liberate ourselves from the brain farts.
If interested:
"What God Used to Create Creation"
https://fred-rick.medium.com/what-god-used-to-create-creation-8f4e2c1e85e9
