[xzins]

What is the plain sense reading of the text?

It is that He is the Creator of everything ex nihilo and then shaped the earth from a void.

That means He created both time, order, and everything else.

But, the plain sense reading of the text is that He created all things, in a particular, and in a particular amount of time. There’s no escaping the text. One is required to go into interpretation to get anything different than that.

[tacticalogic]

And there is no escaping the fact that what was written there came from the imagination of the author. It is impossible for him to have witnessed what is described.

The Bible is from the hand of man, and what is written there is subject to the same limitations of any written language to accurately and completely convey an idea - which is to say, not very well.