Genesis – the coming into being

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:2)

‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’. (Genesis1:1) The opening words of the Judeo-Christian scriptures, written 900 to 700 years BCE or even earlier. Genesis is not a history story in the 21st century sense, rather it records people grappling with the big events and their imaginative attempts to understand God and their relationship with God.