That’s how I take it too.
Thats what you have been told. Consider this:
I am telling you that "the creation of heaven and earth" is about the Law coming into the world through Moses on this planet that had been without shape or form (lawless) and void (pointless) and darkness (ignorance) covered the face of the deep (the unknown) for billions of years, creating a world above and a world below. Angels and demons and all the creatures in-between, including the wild beasts of the field, just represent the heights and depths of human potential.
Before the law was given the world was flat. Everyone was equally former slaves. There were no big shots, religious elite, priests, sinners, saints, rich, poor, lawyers, doctors, judges, police, etc..
It was never about the Big Bang, the creation of the solar system, the earth, the moon, or the first plants animals or human beings. It was written to warn Hebrew children who just escaped the slavery of Egypt about the dangers of losing your sanity for life to a "talking serpent", a con artist, a reference to cultic worship. The Pharaoh wore a serpent on his headdress for shits sake and practiced "the magical arts", sorcery, what is now well known as brainwashing or mind control.
It should've been a dead giveaway when the talking serpent appeared. Adam naming "the animals" was Adam naming human archetypes according to their behavior to either praise or insult just like all people of every language have been doing ever since people could talk. Then, to top it off, when the children of Adam and Eve wanted to find a mate
THEY WENT TO A CITY.
It is impossible the story is about the BB. The earth was already in existence when light was
spoken into existence. And the spirit of God
hovered over the waters and said "let there be light."
Light that causes division between day and night, clean and unclean, right and wrong, true and false, good and evil, sanity and insanity, heaven and hell, a blessing and a curse, life and death.
The Law was entrusted to dedicated and intelligent Jewish people to be "
a light to the nations"
Right now the earth is milliseconds away from a Big Bang, a new creation. All things made new.