Is God a Trinity?

Is God a Trinity?

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Is God a Trinity? The Trinity is one of mainstream Christianity’s most widely accepted and revered doctrines. The belief that God is three persons coexisting in one being or substance, as the doctrine is often defined, is held by millions of Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox believers alike. What is the truth?

Table of Contents

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Jesus Christ

1 minute
The apostle Paul affirms that the God the Israelites of the Old Testament knew - the One they looked to as their "Rock" of strength (see Deuteronomy...
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Jesus Christ's Submission to the Father

3 minutes
The apostle Paul, in Philippians 2, says that Jesus was willing to voluntarily surrender His awesome godly power and position for our sakes, telling...
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How to Stir Up God's Spirit

5 minutes
The apostle Paul admonished members in one of the churches he started, "Do not quench the Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 5:19). He also urged the young...
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How Is God Revealed in the Bible?

22 minutes
A true understanding of God comes from only one source - God's revelation to mankind, the Bible. What does it reveal about God the Father and Jesus...
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The Apostles Understood Jesus to Be the Creator

2 minutes
The book of Hebrews speaks of the Son of God as the Being through whom God created the worlds (Hebrews 1:2) and who "sustains all things by his...
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How Is God One?

10 minutes
Scripture tells us that "the Lord our God, the Lord is one"—from which some believe three persons exist as one God. But is this really what the Bible...
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God's Nature and Character

3 minutes
In any discussion about who and what God is, we must not lose sight of the most important truth about God—that God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son...
This 13th-century fresco in a church in Perugia, Italy, depicts the Trinity as a being with three faces representing Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Introduction

6 minutes
Even though it's one of mainstream Christianity's most widely accepted and revered doctrines, theologians admit that the Trinity is largely...
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A Spurious Reference to the Trinity Added in 1 John 5 verses 7-8

4 minutes
Some Bible translators of past centuries were so zealous to find support for their belief in the Trinity in the Scriptures that they literally added...
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"The Lord Our God, the Lord Is One"

6 minutes
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!" This simple declaration by Moses in Deuteronomy 6:4, beginning what is now commonly referred to...
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God's Purpose for You

23 minutes
Why were you born? Do you understand why you exist? The Trinity doctrine obscures the amazing truth, clearly revealed in Scripture, of God’s purpose...
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Is the Trinity Biblical?

9 minutes
Surely a teaching as widespread and popular as the Trinity is scriptural, isn't it? Yet time and again, theologians and researchers admit it isn't...
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Did Jesus Christ Claim to Be God?

7 minutes
In addition to directly claiming in John 8:58 to be the "I AM" and having a Jewish crowd try to stone Him as a result (verse 59), as explained in this...
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Seven Scriptures That Debunk the Trinity as a Single Being

1 minute
The following seven scriptures show the fallacy of claiming that the Father and the Son are one being as the Trinity teaching asserts. How can one...
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The Likeness of God

4 minutes
In Genesis 1:26, God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness"—the plural "Us" and "Our" denoting both God the Father and the...
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The Surprising Origins of the Trinity Doctrine

17 minutes
Few understand how the Trinity doctrine came to be accepted - several centuries after the Bible was completed! Yet its roots go back much farther in...
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"In the Beginning Was the Word"

7 minutes
The apostle John opens his account of the life of Jesus Christ with this declaration: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and...
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Elohim

3 minutes
Throughout Scripture we come back to the reality that God has chosen to express His personal nature in terms of a family relationship. Elohim is the...
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The God Family

4 minutes
Scripture clearly states that there is only one God (Isaiah 46:9; Malachi 2:10; Romans 3:30; James 2:19). Nevertheless, it is evident that the one God...
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Greek Philosophy's Influence on the Trinity Doctrine

4 minutes
Many historians and religious scholars, some quoted in this publication, attest to the influence of Greek or Platonic philosophy in the development...
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The Claim of Jesus' Disciples

2 minutes
The statements of those who personally knew and were taught by Jesus, and who then wrote most of the New Testament, are thoroughly consistent with...
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Does Matthew 28 verse 19 Prove the Trinity?

3 minutes
Matthew 28:19 is a biblical passage sometimes misunderstood with regard to the Trinity doctrine. Jesus is quoted as telling His disciples, "Go...
In the Bible, the Holy Spirit is represented by water, oil, a dove and fire. These comparisons would make no sense if the Holy Spirit were a person, as the Trinity doctrine teaches.

Is the Holy Spirit a Person?

16 minutes
Many assume the Holy Spirit is a third divine person in the Trinity, along with the Father and the Son. But a closer look at the Bible reveals...
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How Ancient Trinitarian Gods Influenced Adoption of the Trinity

6 minutes
Many who believe in the Trinity are surprised, perhaps shocked, to learn that the idea of divine beings existing as trinities or triads long predated...
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"There Is One God, the Father...and One Lord, Jesus Christ"

7 minutes
A number of scriptural passages identify Jesus Christ as God along with God the Father. Yet some contend that the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 8...
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Why the Holy Spirit Is Sometimes Incorrectly Referred to as "He" and "Him"

4 minutes
Many people assume that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, like the Father and Jesus Christ, based on references to the Spirit as "he," "him" and...
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Do Some Verses Deny a Divine Family?

4 minutes
As this booklet explains, the Bible reveals that the one God is a family, presently consisting of God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ. And...
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Jesus Was Sent by the Father

2 minutes
The preexistent Word, who later became Jesus Christ, was sent to earth by the Father in heaven. The Gospel of John bears record to this truth many...
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God's Plan to "Bring Many Sons to Glory"

2 minutes
The Father and Jesus have, from the beginning, planned to increase Their kind. The "God kind" is a family! It is headed by the Father and now consists...
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The Holy Spirit

10 minutes
Contrary to Trinitarian teaching, Scripture reveals the Holy Spirit not as a person, but as something much different - the divine power through which...
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What About Passages That "Prove" the Trinity?

6 minutes
Some people, seeking to buttress their belief in the Trinity, point to a number of biblical passages that supposedly show Father, Son and Holy Spirit...