In the Bible, God speaks, and He speaks in Genesis 1-1 and says He created the heavens and the earth.

He is the one who spoke in Genesis 1-1 and who speaks right through Scripture till it's very in.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Picture this. You stockpile aluminum, steel, rubber, and plastic in a warehouse.

You leave it unattended for a few years and you end up with a fleet of passenger jets fully functioning and ready for customers.

Now obviously that's a ridiculous scenario that will never happen, but as John MacArthur shows you today, many people are confident that the entire universe just sort of happened.

John looks at what the Bible says about the creation, evolution, debate as he continues his study titled The Battle for the Beginning.

It's one of our most popular and most defining series of messages, and so with a lesson today, here is John.

There are only two options when it comes to origins. The two options are there is a creator, God, or there is not.

Those are the only two options. There either is a creator, God, or there is not.

If there is not, then everything is an impossible, implausible, irrational result of chance.

If on the other hand there is a creative intelligence, if there is a creator, God, then creation is understandable.

It is possible, it is plausible, it is rational.

In Hebrews chapter 1, going to the other end of the Bible, we read that God who spoke long ago to the fathers and the prophets in many portions, in many ways, in these last days have spoken to us, his son, whom he appointed, air of all things, through whom also he made the world.

Hebrews 1 says that God made the world. Psalm 19 says he made the universe. Hebrews 1 says he made the world.

The only way we are going to know that is if God tells us that.

We are natural, God is supernatural. The natural cannot comprehend the supernatural, so on our own we can't find God, we can't discover God, we are locked in a time-space world, we can't crawl outside of it into eternity.

We can't do eternity and comprehend what is incomprehensible, the only things we know about God are those things which He has told us, and that's why He gave us the Bible.

All Scripture is inspired by God, the 2nd Timothy 316.

All Scripture is inspired by God, God breathed it out so that it is His Word.

We can Peter 1, know this first of all that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation.

No prophecy was ever made by an active human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

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