God saw all that He had made and behold, it was very good.

This time He says, it's very good. That's the first time.

And not so much the parts, but He saw all that He had made.

Again, reiterating that He is the Creator and the maker of everything.

No death because no evil and no sin and no fallenness.

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

It'll let her sent to several pastors, an animal rights group,

argued that God created animals to, quote,

experience pain, fear, sadness, and happiness just as we do, unquote.

In effect, they said that animals are really not different from people.

The group also said that killing animals for food is surely the greatest

denial of God in human history. What do you think?

The same God who created animals did create us as well.

Aren't you somehow disrespecting God? Is it somehow wrong to use His creatures for food?

John MacArthur answers those questions today on Grace to you as he considers

how the human race got here and what your role in it is.

The title of his ongoing study from Genesis chapter 1 is The Battle for the Beginning.

To review some specific aspects of God's creation of man, here's John.

Starting with the statement, let us make man, just stop at that point.

There are four features in the making of man that are outlined here.

Four features. The first one is the most defining one.

Let us make man in our image, and then it is said immediately another way,

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