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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The resurrection of Lazarus
50-0813A §26
...country under the name of religion, and living the way people's living, no wonder communistic things break out, and things the way they are. [Gap in the audio]... that the Bible teaches. That's right. We're letting down, compromising. But God's going to have a remnant of people, a Blood washed church without spot or wrinkle. Amen. I believe it with all my heart.
Palmerworm, locust, cankerworm and caterpillar
53-0612 §8
...of course, that's right. It's all by faith." "But" I said, "Brother Osborn, you're a promising little man. And I see that you're ... I believe you're a good level Scripture teacher." I said, "Let me ask you something. If you want to be a success in life, don't claim nothing you haven't got. It'll be showed anyhow after while that you're falsely," see. I said, "Just be honest before God and go on out." I said, "You know... You believe the Bible teaches divine healing?" He said, "Yes, Brother Branham." I said, "Teach...
The time is at hand
56-0408E §55
Now, since He has resurrected... You said, "Brother Branham, that woman touched His garment when He was in a corporal body." I want to ask you something. Does the Bible in the book of Hebrews teach that He is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity? Is that right? Certainly, the Bible teaches that. How're you going to touch Him then with the feeling of your infirmity? Just believe Him. Then He, as the Holy Spirit, His divine Agent that's in us, He reveals it back just like He did then. I...
God testifying of His gifts
52-0713E §44
...d not stay in this building. For let me speak to you, if my words are true. You're subject, and open to every unclean spirit that would leave the people. If that's not pure Bible teaching, I don't know it.
The Pillar of Fire
53-0509 §15
And now, the Bible teaches us that the Logos went out of God, or I might say, all of God becoming His first body form when the Logos went out of God. Let's look what it looked like. No one has seen the Father at any time, no where, never did and never will. But then the Logos that went out of Him become like a little halo of light. Let's see it plain and yonder, like a child before the doorstep of the father. And now, I can see Him as He moves over here, and He draws into His memory ... or, His mind a picture of wh...