Scripture Supports The Trinity

There Is Only One God

"...The Lord our God is one Lord:" (Deuteronomy 6:4)

"Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." (Isaiah 45:21-22)

"Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" (Malachi 2:10)

"I [Jesus Christ] and my Father are one." (John 10:30)

"[W]e are one:" (John 17:22)

"[W]e know that an idol is nothing in the world. and that there is none other God but one." (1 Corinthians 8:4)

God Exists In Three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit

"And God said, Let us make man in our image...." (Genesis 1:26)

"Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me [Jesus, the Messiah]." (Isaiah 48:16)

"[B]aptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" (Matthew 28:19)

"[T]here are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John 5:7)

"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all." (Galatians 13:14)

Diety of Christ

"Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garmet? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? [The assertion is that the Creator God has a Son equal with Himself.]" (Proverbs 30:4)

"THE Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand..." [If David called his own son by a title of Diety, how can He also be his son? The answer is that God's Spirit was predicting that the Messiah would be both truly man and fully God united in one person.] (Psalms 110:1)

"[A] virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us]." (Isaiah 7:14)

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:...his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)

"Jesus said unto him [the devil]...Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God [speaking of Himself]." (Matthew 4:7)

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)

"[T]he Jews sought the more to kill him, because he...said...that God was his Father, making himself equal with God." (John 5:18)

"...Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of the this world, I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am [this is God's name Jaweh - see Exodus 3:14], ye shall die in your sins." (John 8:23-24)

"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am [see Exodus 3:14]." (John 8:58)

"[T]he Father is in me, and I in Him." (John 10:38)

"[H]e that hath seen me hath seen the Father...Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." (John 14:9-10)

"...Thomas answered [Jesus] and said unto him, My Lord and my God." (John 20:28)

"Who [Christ Jesus], being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" (Philippians 2:6)

"[I]n him [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." (Colossians 2:9)

"...God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (1 Timothy 3:16)

"[H]e [God] saith [of Christ],...let all the angels of God worship him." (Hebrews 1:6)

"[U]nto the Son he [God] saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever..." (Hebrews 1:8)

"...Jesus Christ. This is the true God..." (1 John 5:20)

"I [Christ] am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." (Revelation 1:8)

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour Jesus Christ;" (Titus 2:13)

Diety of the Holy Spirit

"[W]hy hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost...?...thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." (Acts 5:3-4)

"[T]he eternal Spirit..." (Hebrews 9:14)

Analogies

Analogies, while never perfect, can help in grasping a concept that is otherwise difficult to understand. Here are a few that might help to grasp the conccpt of the Trinity:

Time - Past, Present, Future
Dimension - Length, Width, Depth
God's Creation - Animal, Mineral, Vegetable
Matter - Gas, Liquid, Solid
Primary Colors - Red, Yellow, Blue
Mankind - Body, Soul, Spirit

Scripture Supports The Trinity
- by Rick La Riviere

Grasping the concept of the Trinity is sometimes a difficult challenge. An analogy I like to use is the spectrum of light. The entire spectrum is made up of three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. Each one of these colors has its own distinct characteristics such as wavelength. If one of these colors is missing then the spectrum of light would be incomplete. There are not three seperate spectrums - only one. Similarily, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, while one God, each have there own distinct qualities or characteristics. To deny the deity of either the Son or the Spirit, because they possess different characteristics, would give us an incomplete picture of who and what God really is. The result would be a false God.

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