Who Killed God?

Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church....  (The people were asking for peace when the following occurred:) 21  So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. 22 And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a man!” 23 Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.

Herod Agrippa was at the epitome of power. A great friend of the Caesar Caligua, he ruled with an iron fist in the fashion of Caligua, one of the most perverse leaders who ever lived. Even Hitler was gentler (sic) than the pervert Caligua! Every powerful person has delusions that they deserve things. In the eyes of God the one thing Herod deserved was death, both temporal and eternal!

Herod had a purpose though - it was his people who killed God, and he hated the Christians. Of course, it was the Jewish leaders who instigated the killing but the blood was on Herodian hands! (Actually, some blame Herod Atipas and some blame Pilate, but it was mankind which killed God!) Because of sin, and all men are sinners, God recognized that He must die to save his creation. Why? He so loved the world! (John 3:16).  Hatred killed God - Jesus on the cross. Those who do not love God killed Him!

Thereafter, any who reject the death of Jesus in their own place, attempt to kill God again. However, we see from the following verse that God can be killed only once:

Romans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all...

True, God died that day on Golgotha, the same place where sin was defeated. (It is claimed that Adam is buried  in the clefts right below!) He did die one time but that was enough to save us - all of us who believe in Him. Then, when everyone, even His disciples, believed he was dead, he arose, and I believe, rolled his own stone back so the world would know the tomb was empty. After hundreds saw him alive, he ascended into heaven, and immediately his Spirit descended. God is alive! Part of Him lives within me. Any power that I have is of God.

Then came  Fredrick Nietzsche. "God is dead, and we killed him!" He wasn't speaking of the cross. It was how the flesh still lives. The people had become as gods, which even the serpent warned! (Genesis 3:4). Nietzsche propagated the philosophy that humankind can excel by their own power. If you're wondering from where Nazi positive Christianity came,  look no further, although it has no power - and is certainly not Christian! Nietzsche borrowed from Charles Darwin, the survival of the fittest, and determined that Christians were least fit. He believed that Christians were weak because they were to God as the Roman slaves were to Caesar.

If you're discerning, you may understand where Marx's notion that religion is the opium of the people correlated well with what Nitzsche proposed. We are part of the herd following an invisible Power when we could be the power ourselves. Essentially, Nitzsche, just as Marx and Hitler, furthered the notion that we could be gods!

Nitzsche was given credit for killing God, but yet God is alive and well while Nitzsche is long dead. Unfortunately, Hitler resurrected the spirit of Nitzsche, and those in rebellion even today proliferate Hitler's doctrine out of naivete. "Stars" such as  Jennifer Lawrence - now in her glory days, are the first to deny God. Although she now bows to Nitzsche and Hitler, someday she will bow to God!

Herod was eaten with worms and died. Strangely enough, at 44 years old Nitzsche went insane, and for he was eaten up with syphilis. It is likely that his demons got to him: he once was a Lutheran theology student, and the son of a minister. Satan got to him by reading books critical of Christianity. Insanity can come from syphilis, It is surmised that he was possibly infected by homosexuals. Of course, he is now as a god in the minds of much of the world. As in the days of Hitler, his philosophy is being cleaned up and made more palatable. This man had delusions of grandeur, not only believing that he was Christ, but the antichrist as well!

How has Nitzsche been washed clean? That he was not anti-Semitic nor nationalistic. The implication is that he was not Nazi-minded. However, Nazis were Nitzsche-minded. He was the inspiration for Hitler, and Marx's philosophy was the same as his.

You see, without God, there is hatred. Nitzsche killed God in Germany. He was the hero of the German populace. Hitler merely stole the show from the dead Nitzsche, added some anti-Semitism and nationalism, and presto - the herds belonging to Nitzsche were his! When Nitzsche stole God from the people, there was no longer anyone to punish those with hatred. Godless people made killing Jews easy. Godless people made it easy for Stalin to kill Jews and Ukrainians. Nitzsche was as responsible for killing Jews as Herod was for killing God - the King of the Jews.

Dictators have always been proficient at killing kings! Nitzsche was the Dr. Frankenstein who made those dictators live. He tried to kill the King, but God still lives. Like Hitler, Nitzsche failed with his final solution - killing Jesus!