One of the things that is most overdone in the study of the Bible is the notion that it tells stories, or that, thematically, it is the "story" of this or that. Is the first chapter of Genesis really a "story" of creation? The start is not really a start, since "in the beginning God" as an idea describes not a start (a creation out of nothing of heaven and earth) but rather prefaces that very creation (as is shown in the separated upper vault of water being dubbed "heaven".) In reality, that wild conglomeration that becomes heaven and earth pre-exists the "story" (which would more properly be called an "account" or a "presentation".)
There is no beginning to our experience of Creation. We are roused into it.
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