Although the term is not used in the Bible the concept of the Trinity is everywhere present. The Bible clearly says there is only one God. Deuteronomy 6:4, Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! Isaiah 45:5, I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me. 1 Corinthians 8:4-5, There is no other God but one. However, three individuals are also said to be God: The Father is said to be God (John 17:3), Jesus is said to be God (Titus 2:13) and the Holy Spirit is said to be God (Acts 5:3-4). What we deduce from this, and hundreds of other passages, is that there is only one God who exists in three distinct persons. John 10:30 states that the Father and the Son are one. 1 Corinthians 3:16 shows that the Father and the Spirit are one. Romans 8:9 makes clear that the Son and the Spirit are one. John 14:16-18 demonstrate that the Father, Son, and Spirit are one. This in no way suggests that the Bible presents three different Gods or three modes of God, rather, it means that God is one essence in three Persons or centers of consciousness. The word “person” is appropriate because a person is self-aware and self-conscious. A person has a will, a mind, can act and love. Each of the three persons in the Trinity demonstrate these qualities throughout the Bible. Each member is in absolute perfect harmony with one another. While each person is fully God and eternal, there is an order within the Trinity (1 Corinthians 11:3). God the Father sends the Son (1 John 4:14). The Father and the Son send the Spirit (John 14:26; 15:26). The Father did not die on the cross, but the Son did.
In the Old Testament, the Bible implies that there is a plurality in God in several ways. The Hebrew word for “God” is “Elohim.” This word in Hebrew is a plural noun, which allows for a Triunity within God. This corresponds to the fact that the plural pronoun (“us”) is sometimes used of God (Genesis 1:26; 11:7; Isaiah 6:8). More directly, there are places in which God’s name is applied to more than one Person in the same text (Psalm 110:1 and Genesis 19:24). And there are also passages where all three divine Persons are seen at work (Isaiah 48:16; 61:1).
The New Testament builds significantly on these truths, revealing them more explicitly. The baptismal formula of Matthew 28:19 designates all three Persons of the Trinity: Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. In his apostolic benediction to the Corinthians, Paul underscored this same reality. He wrote, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God [the Father], and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all (2 Corinthians 13:14). At Jesus’ baptism, all three Persons of the Trinity were simultaneously active (Matthew 3:16-17). Jesus was being baptized, while the Holy Spirit was descending, and at the same time the Father was speaking from Heaven. Jesus asked the Father to glorify Him with the glory they had before the world was (John 17:5). Elsewhere in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit intercedes before the Father on behalf of believers (Romans 8:26). These actions would not make sense unless there were three distinct Persons in the Godhead. To deny or misunderstand the Trinity is to deny or misunderstand the very nature of God. While our human minds cannot fully understand the Trinity, we accept it by faith because the Word of God clearly teaches that this is the nature God.
Scripture Reference
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.
3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?… 4 “You have not lied to men but to God.”
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;
17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
Come near to Me, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His Spirit.
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