Is Jesus the Trinity?
1) Direct Answer
No. Jesus is not “the Trinity.” The Bible never teaches three divine persons. Jesus is the one true God manifested in flesh; in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD (Deuteronomy 6:4).
- God was manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16).
- In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9).
- He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father… the Father that dwelleth in Me (John 14:9-10).
- I and My Father are one (John 10:30).
- His name shall be called… The mighty God, The everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).
- God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19).
- They shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us (Matthew 1:23).
- The Comforter… even the Spirit of truth… I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you (John 14:17-18).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- It’s not three Gods, and it’s not three persons. One God revealed Himself in different ways: as Father above us, in the Son with us, and as the Holy Spirit in us.
- The “Son” speaks of the body born of a virgin—the beginning of God’s manifestation in flesh. The indwelling in that body was the Father. The Holy Spirit is that same one God coming back to indwell believers.
- So Jesus is not a “Trinity.” He is the full revelation of the one God. All that the Father is, and all that the Holy Spirit is, was in Jesus Christ.
- Notice the Scripture says “the name” (singular) in Matthew 28:19, and the apostles used that Name in baptism (Acts 2:38). The one Name that reveals Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the Lord Jesus Christ. That shows oneness, not three persons.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Show one verse that says “three persons in the Godhead.” It isn’t there. But the Bible plainly says God was manifested in Christ, and in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. That’s the mystery—one God made known in Jesus Christ.
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Questions and Answers (God being misunderstood)
61-0723E §18
...e Godhead. And there cannot be a personality without being a person. It takes a person to make a personality. There is no three Gods. There is only one God, and that God is Jesus Christ. God is a Spirit that lived in Jesus Christ, and is living in His church, you and I, today, separating Himself to us in the form of the Holy Spirit, which is God Almighty, Himself, living in you. Now, you are right, it is "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit," is three offices of the same God, but not three Gods. That is scripturally wrong...
Church Ages, part 3: The Ephesian Church Age
60-1205 §20
...in three gods. It was a great issue at the Nicene Council, and both of them went on limbs out this away, as to say. The trinitarian, the triune people that believed in the trinity, which finally formed in the Catholic church, they went to complete trinity---making God three people. And there was one that believed that God was one, and they went on the other side to be a unitarian. Both of them are wrong. God ... Jesus could not be his own father; and neither can Jesus have a father, and Him be three gods. It could...
Look away to Jesus
63-1229E §72
So many of you, that claim to have the Holy Ghost, look and see the second person of a trinity, when it is not even mentioned in the Bible. There's no such a thing. The word trinity is not even in the lids of the Bible. But yet when you look at Jesus, you regard Him as the third person, or the second person of a trinity. And that is the reason you don't get nowhere. You know what He said?--"I am God, and there is none other besides me." Depends on what you are looking at. If you want to put some little mascot boy,...
The Godhead explained
61-0425B §46
Now, some people have said, "Brother Branham, you are a Jesus Only." I want to say that that is an error. I am not a Jesus Only. Somebody says, "Brother Branham, are you a trinitarian?" No, sir. I am not a trinitarian. I'm a Christian. I don't... The word "trinitarian" ... don't even mention in the Bible the word "trinity." And I do not believe that there is three individual gods. I believe there is one God in three offices: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That's exactly why we were commissioned to baptize in the name of...
Hebrews, Chapter 1
57-0821 §43
Now, who is this great guy, this great fellow, Christ? Here: God in Father, Son and Holy Spirit, it's a trinity, but it's not a trinity of people. It's a trinity of office, of one God. He was the Father leading the children of Israel. That was His office, The Great Jehovah Father. And He dwelt on earth, called the Son. And now He dwells in His church, called the Holy Ghost. Not three Gods, one God in three offices. Father, Son and Holy Spirit! People try to make Him three different Gods. God the father... That's th...