What Does the Bible Teach About the Trinity?
1) Direct answer
The Bible does not teach a Trinity of three co-equal persons. It teaches one God—one divine Person—who revealed Himself as Father, in the Son, and now as the Holy Spirit. It’s not three Gods, and it’s not three persons; it’s one God making Himself known.
2) Scriptural explanation
- One God:
- “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29).
- “Beside Me there is no God” (Isaiah 44:6,8).
- “There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
- God manifested in flesh:
- “God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16).
- “The Word was God… and the Word was made flesh” (John 1:1,14).
- “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19).
- “In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9).
- “I and My Father are one” (John 10:30). “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9-10).
- How He reveals Himself:
- God is a Spirit (John 4:24): Father—God above us.
- The Son is the body born of the virgin (Luke 1:35; Galatians 4:4): Emmanuel—God with us.
- The Holy Ghost is that same Jesus coming back in Spirit to dwell in us: “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” (John 14:16-18).
- One Name:
- “In the name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
- The apostles understood that Name and baptized “in the name of Jesus Christ” (Acts 2:38; 10:48; 19:5).
3) Simple clarifying logic
- The Bible speaks of one God, not three persons. That one God revealed Himself:
- As Father—Creator above us.
- In the Son—the Word made flesh, God with us.
- As the Holy Spirit—God in us.
- The Sonship refers to the body prepared in time; the indwelling Life in Him is God Himself. The eternal is God; the Son had a beginning when the Word was made flesh.
- Notice the singular language: one God, one Name, one throne—“behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne” (Revelation 4:2). That’s not three sitting; that’s One.
- If there were three separate co-equal persons, where does Scripture ever say so? Why is the word “Trinity” not found in the Bible? Yet over and over the Scripture declares one God, fully revealed in Jesus Christ.
4) Reinforcing statement
Now notice, the mystery is simple: God was manifested in the flesh—Jesus Christ—and by the Holy Ghost He indwells His people today. It’s one God, the same God, making Himself known in different offices, not a Trinity of persons.
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God's Eye
58-0225 §12
All right. You do this: You just look to Christ. The Bible said that "He is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many know that? The Bible teaches that. Well, a woman touched His garment and He said, "I got weak." And she went off into the audience somewhere. And Jesus said that He was weak, that virtue had gone from Him. Then He looked around until He found the woman. How many ever read that story? Well, then, does the Bible say in Hebrews 13:8 that "Jesus is the same yesterday...
Faith once delivered to the saints
57-0610 §25
Notice, now, Jesus was the One ... the center of Christianity. And when He was here on earth... I've had this week in my office and weeks following ... or, before, about just praying for the sick. Some said, "Brother Branham, I believe you've lost your power with God." Well, I had no power to begin with. The only thing I had was the grace of God. And that was given by God. I believe the Bible teaches us that prayer changes things. It's the prayer of faith that saves the sick: prayer.
Sirs, we would see Jesus
57-0104 §39
Now, let's watch what kind of a ministry. I want to ask you: if we can find the type of ministry... Now, the Bible teaches us that His body is in glory, setting at the right hand of God on the throne of God. But It teaches also, that the Holy Spirit, which is God's Spirit, is here on the earth, continuing His work, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "A little while and the world (That's a--the wor--cosmos, the world order.) won't see Me any more, yet ye shall see Me." He promised to be with us, not i...
Thirsting for Life
57-0613 §70
...He wanted to. She's not a god or a goddess. She's just a woman. She's in glory. Certainly she is. But she's no way at all for her ... intercede. There's no Scripture in the Bible for that. There's one intercessor between God and man, and that's the man Christ Jesus, none other. Anything different from that, anything that intercedes for you, any saint, any person outside of that, is purely high form of spiritualism. The dead are passed on. They're in the presence of God, but cannot intercede. That's exactly right. S...
The Queen of the South
58-0125 §7
...of Brother Bosworth. How many ever knowed Brother F. F. Bosworth? He's happier tonight than he's ever been. He's in glory. The gallant soldier, one of the most outstanding Bible teachers on divine healing I ever met in my life. I've read of many great men, and I've read their history. I've heard them that had little mark here, and a little black mark here, and a little mark against them over here; but never one voice did I ever hear, or anything, against F. F. Bosworth. He was a man that lived what the Bible teach...