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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The principles of Divine healing
51-0923 §20
...is some sort of a (You know?) hocus pocus over people and put some kind of a spell on them that they get well, or something like that, or a hypnotism. That's an error. The Bible teaches divine healing for this present day, and divine healing all down through the age. Now, God always had a provided way for the people to be healed. He give it in the days of the--Israel's journey; He had the brass serpent. After the going away of the brass serpent, when people make an idol out of it, then the prophet broke up the ser...
I am the Resurrection and the Life
52-0810A §15
...e Lord, and I love to worship Him anywhere when we have fellowship around the Word of the Lord. Now, a few little texts that usually I use out like this. Home I go into the Bible, teaching the Old Testament and New, and so forth, not in [unclear words] Greek and Hebrew, because I don't know it. It's just the way I see it here, and the way the Holy Spirit will reveal to me.
Israel and the Church: Israel in Egypt
53-0325 §5
Many calls have been coming in: pray for the sick, and so forth. But I've kind of kept away from it. I'm trying to keep my mind strictly on Bible teachings. And now I don't know what our Lord will do. We're waiting the call for overseas ... to go overseas. I thought this was a wonderful time. Maybe from then... Maybe Brother Neville will feel better by that time, and can pick up from right there, maybe, and go on in this revival. I'd like to see it go on through Easter. And I'd like to have a great big baptism here...
To see Jesus
54-0718E §42
...o you realize that in the last days, when this duel of the spirits come... I wasn't going to say this, but the Holy Spirit is pressing it on me now. Do you realize that the Bible teaches that in the last days, when the two spirits has the showdown, that will not be through some doctrine of churches or something? The Bible said, "The two spirits would be so close till it'd deceive the very elect if possible." Did you realize that it was taught that as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these men, reprobate co...
Seeking after Jesus
53-0531 §10
I want to ask you something. If we were going to look for Jesus of Nazareth tonight, I want to ask this audience: Do you believe that the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ rose from the dead? Do you believe that? Well then, if He rose from the dead, He's among men tonight as He promised He'd be. He said, "A little while and the world seeth me no more, yet you shall see Me." Who is He talk... Well, who's "you, ye"? It's a believer, the church. Just that group of people know. "You shall see Me, for I'll be with you, ev...