So Many Books; So little Time

The Battle For the Beginning

The Battle for the Beginning: Creation, Evolution, and the Bible

by John MacArthur

No, I haven’t exactly stopped reading. I have been slowed down considerably since the death of my father-in-law because I took on the daunting task (I didn’t know it would be at the time) of scanning all the photographs in his house and burning them onto CD/Rom’s for the family members. So, I’m not doing a book a week this summer. I’m not even sure I’m doing a book a month. But I do still read.

On to the book:

Several weeks ago, Art posted a thread about time in the beginning of creation. While I offered a much less than intellectual reply at the time, I offer this work as an intellectual one. John MacArthur is well-known in baptist circles and elsewhere as an old-fashioned preacher and author. Indeed, I have several of his books and have enjoyed them immensely. In this volume, he delineates step by step and day by day the creation story. He brings in arguments from evolutionists and goes straight to the word and to science to show how their arguments fail in view of the a literal reading of the first seven days of the earth. He makes no appologies and leaves no room for doubt in his arguments. The book is well-written and easy to grasp the concepts. He doesn’t get hung up on words above my head so they shouldn’t be above anyone elses. He points out a harmony in the six days of creation (1 & 4 deal with light, 2 & 5 air and water and birds and fish, 3 & 6 dry land and land creatures) and a purpose for all things. He shows how man and woman and marriage fit into the picture. He discusses the perfect world and the fall of man. He considers the serpent and its roll and Lucifer’s pride and the past, present and coming condition of the world and the universe. He even offers a few brief what might have beens and what it could have looked like ifs.

MacArthur’s book started as a series of sermons and is well worth reading by pastors and layman alike.

Available in paperback. Mine as usual came from the clearance rack, copyright 2001, published by Nelson