DEICIDE
So far as man could pierce his God, and slay his God, he went about to commit the
hideous crime; for man slew the Lord Christ, and pierced him with a spear, and
therein showed what he would do with the Eternal himself, if he could come at him.
Man is, at heart, a deicide. He would be glad if there were no God: he says in his
heart, “No God”; and, if his hand could go as far as his heart, God would not exist
another hour. This it is which invests the piercing of our Lord with such intensity of
sin; it meant the piercing of God. 1983.523
Jesus Christ was God, and he came to this earth; and wicked men, though they could
not kill God, went as near to it as they could by killing Christ, who was God as well
as man. We use the word “regicide” when we speak of a man who kills a king, and we
rightly use the word “Deicide” in speaking of the crime of which the world made
itself guilty when it put Christ to death. 2901.451