Behind the creation of everything in the universe stands the living God who had eternally existed as God,

but had not always been Creator.

But here He becomes Creator, and He creates everything, absolutely everything.

A while back, scientists used specifically equipped airplanes to study the composition of meteors.

The reason, as reported by the Associated Press, to hopefully find clues to how organic chemicals were first brought to earth.

Well, if you want to know how life came to earth, look no further than your Bible.

It spells out exactly how all things began.

And today, on Grace to you, John MacArthur continues his series from the book of Genesis, showing you the Creator who put his glory on display in bringing the universe into existence.

The title of John's current study, the Battle for the Beginning.

So turn to Genesis chapter 1, and here is John MacArthur.

The Bible opens with a monumental statement.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

And with that statement, the Word of God, Holy Scripture, affirms the existence of the universe and everything in it as the product of God's creative act.

It's a very important statement.

We are here shown in this verse that evolution, the dominant theory of science, is not true.

What exists exists not because it evolved, but because God created it.

We've tried to show that evolution is not scientific.

Evolution is not reasonable.

Evolution is impossible and irrational.

We've been saying that there has never been one shred of evidence that matter on any level chemically, can or will, can or will, organize itself, all by itself.

Even when energized, let alone organizing itself, by itself, upward to viable life and continually higher life and finally reaching human life.

There has never been one shred of evidence that matter does that or can do that.

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