God of relationships.

“In the beginning God created . . .” One thing that is very important to notice here in Genesis 1:1 is that the translators are using the name “God” for the Hebrew name “Elohim”.  Elohim is plural.  Elohim is not the same as the mysterious name of God, Jehovah (or Yahweh . . . Yahweh is not mentioned until Genesis 2:4) that is related to His eternal nature.  Elohim is, first and foremost, a relational name; God relates to Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  He then relates to His creation as maker, personally involved in the outcome and not merely speaking from a distant throne.  The first picture of God then, is certainly not of some abstract fireball of pristine existence from Greek philosophy, but of a maker, or gardener, or husbandman.  He lives a life of loving and making.