I'll tell you what grieves me most of all.

What grieves me most of all is people who say their Christians

who believe the Bible and then claim evolution.

You cannot find evolution in Genesis 1 anywhere.

It's not there.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson.

If you check the latest news, you'll find multiple seemingly unrelated stories

that actually share a common bond.

Stories, for example, about a proposed law to protect transgender rights

or the availability of abortions and maybe a science article on the latest thoughts

on the origin of the universe.

What is the common thread?

It's a subtle or not so subtle rejection of the God who made us.

The God who declared the standards of conduct for each one of us.

So how do you respond to that kind of thinking?

How can you best defend biblical truth when it comes to those and other hot-button topics?

John's going to help you with that today as he continues his look at the battle for the beginning.

And now here's John with the lesson.

How did the universe come into existence?

Let's go back to chapter 1 of Genesis and go back to where we've been all along.

It came into existence exactly the way it's described in the opening chapter of the Bible

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