In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
One of the reasons many people misunderstand the Bible is that they fail to understand that it is one book. There are sixty-six “books” that make up the one book. But that Bible is ONE STORY—with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The story is all about GOD. God is the HERO of the whole Bible, as well as every part of the Bible. We make a big error when we read the Bible if we think it is about us—our happiness, fulfillment, or even our salvation and eventual eternity in heaven.
Nope. It is about God.
As Jesus said in John 5:39, “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” This is not surprising since Jesus IS God!
From the very beginning in Genesis, the Bible is about Jesus who is God. Genesis 1-2 is about God creating everything but Himself. God is uncreated and has no beginning. Everything else that exists owes its existence to God. “In the beginning” (means when time began), “God” already always was. God is eternally self-existent. No one or nothing created Him. He did not create Himself because that would mean He was creating before He existed, which is impossible, even for God! He simply always was, is, and ever will be.
The main character of the creation account is God the Creator, not the creation.
The Bible teaches the doctrine of the Trinity, that God is one in essence, while being three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All three persons were involved in creating everything out of nothing.
The first member of the Trinity specifically named is the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:2). Elsewhere, Jesus the Son is said to have been an active participant in creation. Consider John 1:1-3
1“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
Likewise consider Colossians 1:15-17:
15 He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
The main Character of the Bible, beginning with creation, is God, including Jesus our Savior and Lord.