About J. Vernon McGee
John Vernon McGee was an American ordained Presbyterian minister, pastor, Bible teacher, theologian, and radio minister. McGee's first church as a pastor was located on a red-clay hill in Midway, Georgia. McGee advocated creationism and upheld the literal interpretation of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, interpreting the six "days of creation" to six 24-hour periods of time. McGee rejected the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine that Peter went to and founded the Church in Rome, asserting, rather, in many sermons that the Church in Rome was founded by Paul. McGee became the pastor of the Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles in 1949, succeeding Louis T.
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