Genesis opens by saying that God created “the heavens and the earth” at the beginning Genesis 1:1. The verse presents creation as God’s action before any further details are given.
Genesis opens by stating that at the start of all things, God brought into existence “the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1–2). The next line shifts to what the earth was like at that early stage: unshaped, unfilled, and covered in darkness over a deep, watery expanse. These two verses function as the doorway into the whole creation account that continues through the sequence of days in Genesis 1. Verse 1 gives a headline claim: God is the one who initiates and causes the cosmos to exist.
Genesis 1:1–2 opens with a simple claim about origin: God is there “at the beginning,” and God is the one who brings “the heavens and the earth” into existence (explicit statement in verse 1).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Genesis 1:1, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.