Bereishit bara Elohim at haShemayim v’at haEretz

In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.

Bereishit (Genesis) 1:1

All sound reasoning and philosophy must begin with the absolute and unconditional acceptance of this Truth spoken by the Holy Spirit.

There are three nouns in this sentence.

The Subject, God, Who is before all and the primordial cause of all, and

the predicate contains two nouns, the Heavens and the Earth, which were both created by God.

This irrefutably proves that there is a fundamental, irreducible, primordial dualism in the whole Creation, completely composed by the Heavens and the Earth, or Form and Matter. St. Augustine discusses this topic at length in Chap. 12 of Confessions. This is highly recommended reading, and will help the modern and postmodern reader to escape out of those fragmentary humanistic worldviews that we have been raised to absorb into our souls, and to obtain a much deeper, holier, and transcendant understanding of Scripture.

In order to truly understand Scripture, the reader of Scripture must have the same transcendant mind that is given by the Holy Spirit, Who is also the author of these Scriptures. (II Peter 1:20-21)