What puzzles me about this is that these are the first few words of the Book of
John, but why would he call this "the first two or three sentences of the King
James Bible"?  It doesn't start with John.

The Old Testament starts with Genesis, and I wonder whether Cliff's memory
tricked him into thinking it was the start of John, but is in fact "In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light....."

Maybe my theology lets me down, but why would anyone consider the Book of John
to be the start of the Bible?