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Religion interpret the initial Genesis 1:1 statement as God accomplished act of creation. God in this view finished the heaven and the earth. Religion then relates a developed creation of events to follow. Thus God formation is recalled in certain stages. My question is outside the chatter of religion and into the realities of the God statement. This statement first starts with Moses. Moses who wrote this creation account. Moses who detailed an angel who told him the account. In retrospect, the initial verse of Genesis is angel telling Moses "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth". Angel in the sequence of events defined the formation it took to form these features. Can you tell me which view is the God story account?
First, there is no interpretation to Genesis 1:1. It specifically states that God created everything that exists.
Gen 1:1-2
1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NKJV
We also find the same comments, reinforced elsewhere in scripture.
Col 1:14-18
15 He 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.
NKJV
Rev 4:11
11 "You are worthy, O Lord,
To receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things,
And by Your will they exist and were created."
NKJV
Therefore it is clear that God created all things.
I am not sure what you are referring to when you say that scripture says that an angel told Moses this account. We have no specific statement in scripture regarding the method by which God communicated this to Moses. Indeed, we have nothing which specifically tells us that Moses penned the book of Genesis, though that is a generally accepted view.
Scripture give no other view of creation other than the fact that God created everything.
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