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.
Glorified Jesus
55-0225 §45
...e lot of bogus, whole lot of make-beliefs of mediums and spiritualists, but there is one that they couldn't upset." Someone said to me, "Do you believe that?" Yes, sir, the Bible teaches that there is such things: the witch of Endor; it's a devil. Right. But she's got a lot of impersonators.
The resurrection of Lazarus
53-1122 §37
...s as ministering spirits sent from the presence of God." He said, "Well, our church don't believe in that." I said, "I don't know what your church believes, I know what the Bible teaches." He said, "Well, Brother Branham, angels might have been back in Daniel's time and back there, but not since the Holy Ghost is come, no angels." I said, "Do you believe that Philip had the Holy Ghost?" "Certainly."
Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §81
...in tongues is a divine gift of God which belongs in the church just the same today as it was back there in the beginning. That's exactly the truth. Yes, indeedy! That's the Bible teaching. It's a divine gift, and you deny that just the same as you deny the new birth, you deny everything that Jesus taught when you try to cut that out. Now, you can go wild on that; many of them have. But I'm saying, "That has its place." It's just like a pair of shoes; when you buy a pair of shoes, the tongues are in them. That's rig...
Sirs, be of a good cheer
54-0721 §23
...try to bring faith up, so that you could be healed. Don't you believe that? Now, what is gifts and callings? They are without repentance; is that right? Does the Scripture teach that gifts and callings are without repentance? That's right. You can't make yourself something you're not. I wanted to be six foot tall and weigh a hundred and ninety pounds, or... It didn't do me any good. He said, "Who taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" You are what you are by the grace of God. You can't add nothing; you...
Exploits of faith
53-1213E §71
...ple come in our church that speaks with tongues." I said, "Then Jesus couldn't come, because He died speaking in tongues." It's true. And He taught speaking in tongues. The Bible teaches speaking in tongues. All the apostles, all the saints and everything believed it, taught and received it. Well, now Paul said, "If you all speak with tongues and there be no interpretation for edification of the church." Some unlearned person say, "Now aren't you all mad?" But if one is a prophet and would reveal the things that's...