Genesis, 1:1

 God created the world out of pure nothing, or out of some sort of existing but chaotic substrate of something as nothing in formless space and time. 

In my Holy Bible, a 1970 King James Version edited by Thomas Nelso Inc, it is written: "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."

In the beginning of time or at least prerecorded history, God existed, and God, the Creator, did begin the world of cosmos by creating heaven and earth.

In my Roman Catholic Bible, The New American Bible, 1970, it is written: "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, . . ."

Jordan Peterson compares humans to God in that we are co-creators, in a small way individually, but more significantly enmasse, and we are instilled a priori with that divine spark, by De, so we too can extend God domain with out own efforts, creating cosmos, love and good in our small corner of the existing universe.