How come some christians believe in the trinity and others don't? Can the bible support this concept?

Answer 1

The first time "God" is referred to in the Bible is in Genesis 1:1. The Hebrew word used for God in that verse is "Elohim." The "im" ending on that word makes it a masculine plural noun. So, you would think that the verbs would agree in number, but they don't. The verbs used with "Elohim" are always singular. Here's what the first part of Genesis reads like:

"Breshit bara Elohim..." In the beginning God created.

If the verb "bara" to which Elohim refers was plural, the verse would look like this:

"Breshit baru Elohim..." Which says the same thing, but makes the verb plural as well. So, what we have is a plural noun perfoming a singular action. How can you explain that other than with the trinity?

Answer 2

The mystery of the Triune God is a tough nut to crack.

Human beings have a difficult time admitting there's something beyond their ability to comprehend, so many denomination's founders simply decided to pooh-pooh the concept.

Unfortunately, as soon as they do that, they have to stop their followers from reading the Bible. They substitute their founder's writings instead and encourage their study. For most of their followers this means they rarely get closer to Scripture than the carefully edited exerpts to be found in their leader's works and words.

But Scripture is both overt and exact on the Triune God.

Jesus says that He and the Father are one! That's as flat-footed a statement as you can get! He promises to send the Spirit and also promises that HE will be with us til the end of time. Why send a Spirit if He's gonna hang around? Because the Spirit is another Person in the Trinity who together are the one God.

Of course, there's a catch here. You gotta believe in Jesus. You gotta accept that the New Testament authors knew whereof they wrote. You gotta have faith that Jesus was not A) A lying, scheming con artist, or B) A megalomaniacal nutjob: but the only begotten Son of the Living God, and God Himself.

To deny the Trinity is inevitably to deny Christ and once He's demoted, you might as well call yourselves Jonesians, or Smithians or ANYTHING but Christians. 'Cause you ain't a Christian, not nohow, not noway, not no more! By definition, Christians are those human beings who accept that Jesus of Nazareth, is the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the Living God and God Himself. PERIOD! Sorry, no loopholes there!

Answer 3

Outside of the deliberately created Pauline idea of the trinity, there is no scriptural basis for this doctrine. In fact, most ancient Christians (nestorians, coptics, Celtic church of Ireland, various Essene sects) rejected Paul's wild (and pagan) interpretation of things and did not believe in any such concept as the trinity. In modern times, some christian sects like the jehovah's witnesses reject it.

So just to reiterate, if someone says, "yeah but corinthians says blah blah" that is Paul's doctrine, made up much later, and nothing outside of his theories supports the idea of a triune god. Even the O.T. states that before the messiah came to earth he was "with God" from the time of creation. Not "was God." It would be silly to say "God was with God." It is clearly stating that they are to be considered separate people. Many such examples permeate the O.T.

Answer 4

The Bible is closer to deny the trinity than to support it. Remember that the Bible was written by staunch monotheist, most of them Jew. Bible's authors may find the concept of trinity shocking.

Answer 5

Yes the bible does support the cncept of the trinity. Note how the gospel of Matthew ends for starters.

Answer 6

Well read the New Testament it mentions The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit repeatedly. There is the Trinity. I don't know how else to break it down for you really heh.

Answer 7

Xtns go places with their bibles but rarely read or study it. They also lacks the proper schooling in history. If their dogmatic nature is however removed from this, their backlogs of problems would have been reduced.
The ten commandment stated this in unequivocal terms. Thou shall not worship any other God besides me. and in Isisah, it says hear o israel, your God our God is one God.
The trinity is a coinage of the romans- at their embrace of xty. The romans do things in triune. The bible also commands that thou shall not make any image ort carve any image. Virtually all catholic have the image of jesus [supposed image of Jesus xt and Mary] fully decorating their churches.
They are disobeying God's law and commanding disobedience. They'd return someday, i am so optimistic. I am a muslim anyway. Happy i discovered Islam while a student at the Baptist School and St. Andrews Anglican.

Answer 8

How can one God be three persons?






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The doctrine of the Trinity -- that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are each equally and eternally the one true God -- is admittedly difficult to comprehend, and yet is the very foundation of Christian truth. Although skeptics may ridicule it as a mathematical impossibility, it is nevertheless a basic doctrine of Scripture as well as profoundly realistic in both universal experience and in the scientific understanding of the cosmos.

Both Old and New Testaments teach the Unity and the Trinity of the Godhead. The idea that there is only one God, who created all things, is repeatedly emphasized in such Scriptures as Isaiah 45:18:

"For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; ...I am the Lord; and there is none else."

A New Testament example is James 2:19:

"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe, and tremble."

The three persons of the Godhead are, at the same time, noted in such Scriptures as Isaiah 48:16:

"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."

The speaker in this verse is obviously God, and yet He says He has been sent both by The Lord God (that is, the Father) and by His Spirit (that is, the Holy Spirit).

The New Testament doctrine of the Trinity is evident in such a verse as John 15:26, where the Lord Jesus said:

"But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, He shall testify of me."

Then there is the baptismal formula:

"baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19).

One name (God) -- yet three names!

JESUS -- That Jesus, as the only-begotten Son of God, actually claimed to be God, equal with the Father, is clear from numerous Scriptures. For example, He said:

"I 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).

HOLY SPIRIT -- Some cults falsely teach that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal divine influence of some kind, but the Bible teaches that He is a real person, just as are the Father and the Son. Jesus said:

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come" (John 16:13).

TRI-UNITY -- The teaching of the Bible concerning the Trinity might be summarized thus. God is a Tri-unity, with each Person of the Godhead equally and fully and eternally God. Each is necessary, and each is distinct, and yet all are one. The three Persons appear in a logical, causal order. The Father is the unseen, omnipresent Source of all being, revealed in and by the Son, experienced in and by the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit from the Son. With reference to God's creation, the Father is the Thought behind it, the Son is the Word calling it forth, and the Spirit is the Deed making it a reality.


We "see" God and His great salvation in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, then "experience" their reality by faith, through the indwelling presence of His Holy Spirit.

Though these relationships seem paradoxical, and to some completely impossible, they are profoundly realistic, and their truth is ingrained deep in man's nature. Thus, men have always sensed first the truth that God must be "out there," everywhere present and the First Cause of all things, but they have corrupted this intuitive knowledge of the Father into pantheism and ultimately into naturalism.

Similarly, men have always felt the need to "see" God in terms of their own experience and understanding, but this knowledge that God must reveal Himself has been distorted into polytheism and idolatry. Men have thus continually erected "models" of God, sometimes in the form of graven images, sometimes even in the form of philosophical systems purporting to represent ultimate reality.

Finally, men have always known that they should be able to have communion with their Creator and to experience His presence "within." But this deep intuition of the Holy Spirit has been corrupted into various forms of false mysticism and fanaticism, and even into spiritism and demonism. Thus, the truth of God's tri-unity is ingrained in man's very nature, but he has often distorted it and substituted a false god in its place.

Answer 9

your question directly prooves how religions had been changed by people for thousands of years. You see, people choose to believe what they think is logical. In ancient times, making changes in the religious book used to be easier. For example, before forensic medicine was not developed that much people used to kill many people and could not be cathed. And now, after thousands of years there are specific written holy books and as they are known by millions they can not be changed and will never be. But there are still different point of views, do not worry, just trust your own ideas and emotions.

Answer 10

Yes. The trinity is on the cross. Jesus dies out of obedience to the Father and the Spirit is the love binding them together.