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The Trinity is the Christian doctrine describing the triune nature of God, which asserts the following

  • There is one and only one God
  • The one God eternally exists in three distinct persons
  • The Father is God, Jesus, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit are God

The word "Trinity" is not found in the Bible. It was first used in writing by Theophilus of Antioch around 180 A.D. as a way of expressing the triune nature of the one God revealed in Scripture. The Bible does use the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit though.


Scriptural References To The Trinity

A number of passages in the Bible refer directly to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

A number of verses also show that Jesus was God.

  • John 1:1 and John 1:14 - 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. edit 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. edit
  • John 5:21 - 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. edit
  • John 8:23-24 - 23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. edit 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." edit
  • John 8:58 - 58 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." edit (Jesus is speaking in reference to when God told Moses to tell the Hebrews "I am has sent you" in Exodus 3:14)
  • John 10:30 - 30 I and the Father are one." edit
  • John 10:38 - 38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." edit
  • 1 John 5:20 - 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. edit
  • Titus 2:13 - 13 Looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; edit
  • Colossians 2:9 - 9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, edit
  • Philippians 2:5-6 - 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, edit 6 Who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, edit

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Justin Martyr

"We will prove that we worship him reasonably; for we have learned that he is the Son of the true God himself, that he holds a second place, and the Spirit of prophecy a third. For this they accuse us of madness, saying that we attribute to a crucified man a place second to the unchangeable and eternal God, the Creator of all things; but they are ignorant of the mystery which lies therein" (First Apology 13:5–6 [A.D. 151]).

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