The History of Time and the Genesis of You Quotes

“So if you find yourself hoping against God, and the thought of everyone being saved isn’t good news to you, but bad news to you; if grace burns you like fire – you need to ask yourself why.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty! ~ Karl Barth, God Here and Now”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“It’s not that Darwinism isn’t describing something real. It’s just not life. It’s death… and Hell.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“But for now, my point is simply that on the seventh day, it appears that there are no losers. So if you need some losers to feel like a winner, you may not like the seventh day.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“We can write ourselves out of our own story, but not out of God's Story, the Deepest Story.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“He died and rose from the dead saying, "My Father is your Father." You are not an orphan. You are not an extra. You have His name.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Even though we wrote ourselves out of the story; even though we cursed the voice; even though we crucified the Plot on the tree; even though we tried to make Him just a fact in our story, even THAT is a story within The Story.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“The deepest story is not The Fall. The deepest story is not your sin. The deepest story is that God is making you in His image. Jesus is His image, and you are His Temple, Body, and Bride. The deepest story is that God is making you in His Image and will not fail.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“If the garden story comes after the seventh day when "everything is good," how does one account for an evil talking snake, the need for a wall around the garden, two ignorant naked people that don't know Good from evil, and this statement from God, "it's not good that the man [the adam] is alone"? How can "it" be "not good," if God has already declared everything good and finished?”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“After day seven, the next verse in Genesis says, "When no plant of the field was yet in the earth...then the Lord God formed man of dust" (Gen. 2:5-7). That's a description of the sixth day, when God formed "man" ... Genesis 2 is not a description of something that happened after the seventh day, but before...”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“The seventh day is not over; the story is not over. We're still being made in the image of God. ... it appears that we are still living in the sixth day.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“No matter what data is used, we live in a universe where six days from one standpoint is several billion years from another standpoint. And indeed, all of time is an instant from the standpoint of light, and "God is light.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“We look back in time. "The Bible...looks forward from the beginning.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Jesus said, "Whatever you [all] ask in my name, I'll do it for you" (John 14:13). In my name--and who is He? He's the Plot--the Word of the Author, who is the narrator.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Imagine that I'm God and I hold the Universe in my hands. Picture it as a shoe box--but it's the Universe. OK? All space, all time, all matter is in the box: The Universe. I AM not in the box, but I AM holding the box.

Imagine if I spoke to the people in my box universe: "Hey people! How's it going, eh? Hang in there. Love you guys!"

Well, everything and everyone, everywhere and everywhen, would vibrate with the sound of my words.

"Logos" in Greek means "meaning, logic, reason, wisdom, word." The Word is logic, meaning, reason, truth, life, and light. And Scripture is clear that God does not only create with His Word; He maintains and sustains all things with this Word. The box is upheld by this Word. So God is continually speaking into the box (His creation).

Now, that all sounds rediculous to modern minds, but lately it's all begun to sound rather like science... special relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory: the theory that all particles are like vibrations of meaning on super-strings that exist in at least eleven or twelve dimensions. "Vibrations of meaning"... that's what a word is!”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“A composer is not a note in his symphony, but if you have the capacity to hear the symphony and not just individual notes, the symphony bears testimony to the composer and gives meaning to each note. If you specialize in a note, you may never hear the symphony.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“God is not an "object" of scientific observation in this world.

Even if you understood every individual part of a Ford motor car, took it apart and analyzed each piece, you still wouldn't find Henry Ford. And the car would no longer run. Yet a whole [running] Ford motor car is a beautiful testimony to a person named Henry Ford.

God may not be a thing in His world, yet the whole thing can bear testimony to it's maker.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Is there a God?

The way we modern people try to answer this question is absurd.

Imagine that I'm God and I hold the Universe in my hands. Picture it as a shoe box--but it's the Universe. OK? All space, all time, all matter is in the box: The Universe. I AM not in the box, but I AM holding the box.

If the Universe were the size of planet Earth, our solar system would be about 1/70,000 of an inch wide.

Now imagine that a man in the utterly minuscule speck that is our solar system, on the unimaginably minuscule speck that is our planet, in one particular spot, at one particular time, examines some clam fossils. He is a specialist in fossilized cretaceous mollusks. Then, based on what he "empirically" and "objectively" observes, he writes a book stating, "There is no God." That is, there is no one holding the box.

So, all the modern, technologically advanced, scientific people say, "Well, he is an expert... so that must be truth."

That's absurd, isn't it? It's absurd because some questions are way to big for any specialist.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method. How could you prove that Truth is true? Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method...let alone Love, Reason, Spirit, or you.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“The formless void is transformed by the Meaning of the one who is Good. Confusion and sorrow prepare you for the revelation of grace. The nights you cry alone in the dark allow you to see the light, as God whispers, "Now let there be light." The desperate longing is broken soil prepared for an eternal seed that will bear eternal fruit. Even your disobedience, your aimless wandering, your angry defiance... even the void that is your sin becomes space for the presence of God, who is Mercy. It becomes space for the revelation of you--His child, in His Image: a vessel of Mercy where once there was emptiness and wrath. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new." (2 Cor. 5:17 NKJV)”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You