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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54-0331 §42
...et's take... How many in here believes that there was a resurrection of the dead, and Jesus Christ is the firstfruits of those who slept? Thank you for your faith. Now, the Bible teaches in Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? Jesus said, "The things that I do shall you also." Is that right? And when He was here on earth, He didn't claim to be a healer. He didn't claim to be nothing but just the Son of God. He said, "I can do nothing till the Father shows me." But...
Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §45
...me. Get the thing off of me. Let me get right with You." See what I mean? So, be careful, church. Do you understand? If you do say, "Amen," see, if you do. Now, that's true Bible teaching. Now, it won't...Now you hear...I've heard them come up and say, "Oh, the Lord is coming soon. Jesus is coming. And the--and the people must be ready." Or something like that. Sure, the Lord's wrote that in the Bible. If it come, it'll come right through the prophet, coming out, through, like that. But it's for the edifying of the...
Questions and Answers, The Law having a shadow
54-0516 §40
...in order. That's what's caused trouble in the Branham Tabernacle. See? It's because you people, with your gifts, don't know how to use them. And that's the reason you need Bible teaching, to know how to use that gift, to get the best out of it, for the Kingdom of God's sake. Speaking in tongues, I wish every one of you spoke with tongues. I wish the interpretation of tongues were with every one of you. But you couldn't do it, the same time. You've got to yield to the order of the Spirit. When the Spirit has anoint...
The Supernatural
56-0129 §63
The next morning Almighty God by His infinite power, when the German church come down and said, "We can understand and believe your theology, and your Bible teaching is wonderful, Brother Branham." But said, "That light, that Angel, we can't understand it." And they had a breakfast with about six hundred ministers met together, and they put a big German camera there, and the Holy Ghost in that same pillar of fire came down and was took on the German camera three times that morning. And it swept Germany. The atmosph...
The Unwelcomed Christ
55-0828A §4
...d have been born again; they have eternal life. And we're going to meet again. And all the old people are going to be changed and go back young again. Amen. That's what the Bible teaches.