I read somewhere once that “God is dead”. So I googled it. According to Wikipedia:

“God is dead” (German: Gott ist tot (help·info); also known as the death of God) is a widely quoted statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche used the phrase to express his idea that the Enlightenment had eliminated the possibility of the existence of God[citation needed]. Proponents of the strongest form of the Death of God theology have used the phrase in a literal sense, meaning that the Christian God, who had existed at one point, has ceased to exist.

Nietzsche’s complete statement is:

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

The phrase first appeared in Nietzsche’s 1882 collection The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, also translated as “The Joyful Pursuit of Knowledge and Understanding”).[1] It is more famously associated with his Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), which is most responsible for making the phrase popular. Other philosophers had previously discussed the concept, including Philipp Mainländer and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead

Is God really dead? Did we really kill him? How on Earth would we actually comfort ourselves from this? Since that time, that very first time that I heard it, I doubted it. How could we do something so heinous? In my short 38 years in existence I’ve come to realize that God is not only alive and well, He is also dead and gone. He is alive and well in the hearts of those who believe in him and dead and gone from those who have found other Gods to worship.

There is not any science behind this belief except my observation of the people around me and my own experiences in this ride we call life. If we are made by God, in his image and from his own breath, are we not perfect and immaculate? Or are we flawed because our creator is flawed? If we are his children and he lives in us, are we not the epitome of perfection? or are we a reflection of His almighty imperfection? If God is the redeemer what’s to be redeemed? If God is the judge, what is there to be judged is he has made us? He knew us in the womb. He knows our heart like no other. Is it his own replica of heart? Does it beat in rhythm with ours? If God is Divine are we not divinity? If we are in His image, is God a woman and a man? Is he masculine and feminine? Is there a God and a Goddess from which he sculpted the feminine?

This begs a deeper question from me. Is being enlightened unGodly? Is God’s ego so fragile that questioning and having faith all in the same breath is unacceptable? Is God so selfish as to not want his children to reach the enlightenment he has allowed to exist? Is God so inhumane that he would not allow us to live as he would in knowing bliss?

Ponder. Seek. Trust your divine spirit to guide you.

Lovingy,

Donica