Semantics is the problem.
As regards ourself, the inner person, our thinking, we, inside our head, create the Universe "out there." The Universe is a reflection or schmata in our mind of that Reality which is "out there" beyond our mind.
We know what is "out there" by means of sensory inputs and deductive and inductive reasoning, all of which culminates in our own head.
We assume from the sensory data that what is "out there" preceeded us.
We presume in the understanding of what is "out there" that it is orderly.
We have become convinced in our logic, and in our mathematics, in our common sensory collaterations that what is "out there" can be known in evermore detail.
Our intuition tells us that the that "out there" is a rational, knowable world.
Intuition is confirmed, in and by our success so far, in having understood what is "out there."
Our awe and our logic tells us that what is "out there" is our master. What is "out there" is important to our survival.
Understanding what is "out there" is important to oir collective survival.
In this, what is
ut there" becomes almighty important.
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God, (The Universal Force out there) created the heaven and the earth.
Gen. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God (the Natural Laws which function out there) moved upon the face of the waters.
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These couple of verses prepare us for the coming evolution of Jesus in the New Testament
Gen. 1:26 And God, (The Universal Force, the Macrocosmos out there), said, "Let us, (the Natural Laws), make man, (a conscious mind, to model us, the Universe, as in a Microcosmos of his mind, in order that our image might be modeled after our own orderly organization): and let him (that conscious mind,) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Gen. 1:27 So God (The Universal Force) created man (an abstract mind in his own image, enabled to image The Universal Force, abstractly and mathematically), so created God (The Universal Force) him; male and female created he them.