The Spirit of God is hovering over the surface of this earth, the brooding of the Spirit of

God over the waters.

Listen, that is a major detail in the creation account, not a minor one.

You have the living God, superintending, being directly in charge of the entire process

of creation.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's clear that science has answered a lot of questions about how this world works, but

has science, particularly evolutionary theory, really figured out how the world got here

in the first place?

Even some churches would say, yeah, it has.

Can the book of Genesis hold up to what modern science says about origins?

After that today, on Grace To You, as John MacArthur continues his study called the

Battle for the Beginning.

But John, before today's lesson, give us a sense once more of just how foundational

this battle for the beginning is for us as believers.

More specifically, I'm wondering, how serious a theological error is it, say, to believe

in theistic evolution?

Can someone genuinely be saved and reject the idea of a literal six-day creation?

Yeah, someone can genuinely be saved and not even know about the six-day creation.

Someone can be saved and not believe in the six-day creation, but that's a serious sin

to know what the book of Genesis says and not to believe it.

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