This comment was posted to the old blog – Thoughts of an Old Man.  In the interest of letting this person be heard and responded to by as many people as I think she would like –  I’m posting the comment here.

I know this was written ages ago, but the bible has God all wrong. The bibles God doesnt exist. Mainly because too many human faults are put upon him and glorified as something powerful. What need would an omnipotent being have for hate, judgement and anger? Its such a waste to US as a species, why would he lower himself to our level? Many people turn to the books written by man to place their entire faith on but his truth is in no book. It’s inside us. We are born with it. I know this will sound stupid and naive to you, but the Bible never spoke to me. God did. Not conversationally, of course, but with every sunrise, every hug, every smile of my daughters face, THAT is the word of God. Not some letters spewed onto a page and translated as rule. Living by that book has destroyed civilizations, eras, and us as a humanity. It is the false prophet. And generations have died from it.  [dawna reisner]

Let us address the commenter’s  main  premise – that one can self determine the nature of the Godhead.

Immediately – we can observe that the writer has done two things:

1. Committed idolatry by creating her own god
2. Blasphemed the Word of God by saying that Jesus Christ, the Word of God, lies about Himself.

We may condense her opinion into one statement.

I don’t like what the Bible says – therefore it is untrue. 

• If the Bible does not “speak to you,” that means you are not born of the Spirit.  

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

• By saying that the Bible is the false prophet – that is committing the unforgivable sin, by blaspheming the Holy Spirit, Who is the Author of the Bible. 

2 Peter 1:21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

• In saying that the Bible has been the cause of the world’s woes, more blasphemy is committed.

Psalm 138:2   I will worship toward Thy holy temple, and praise Thy name for thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth: for thou hast magnified Thy word above all Thy name.

• Blaming the Bible, rather than man’s exceeding sinfulness,  is the same sin committed by Adam in the Garden of Eden when he blamed God.  This is also blasphemy.

Romans 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

• Denying your own complicity in the cumulative sins of mankind, is proof that you are outside the faith.

1 John 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

When I first read this comment, I could not believe it was genuine, and likely the antics of a troll because of the provocative nature and specious quality of it.  But, as I thought on it, The LORD convicted me that whether genuine or not – it could still be examined and a Scriptural argument developed for it,  because even internet trolls need to be witnessed to, and we all encounter people who posit  the same belief system.