Why does the trinity doctrine relies almost entirely on non-Biblical terminology?

Question

Some notable examples include: Trinity, Three-in-one, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost.

How can this justify that God is truely a triune if such terminologies do not originate anywhere from the Bible?

tuberoot, funny, how can you say that the Bible precisely describe God as being a triune and you call it a mystery?
If it is a mystery then, logically asking, how do you know then for posititive that God is a triune?

your scriptures do not fit your terminology. Your scriptures can be used to show that God, Jesus and holy spirit are not one.
Read Revelation 1:1
So the Bible does not directly say, what your terminology implies.

pish, please keep to the topic

Answer 1

Because it is a man-made doctrine of which the Bible warns us about. This doctrine has caused so much confusion and is causing so many people to stumble...

1 John 4: 1: "Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world."

Once someone gets stuck on the trinity they can hardly progress from there because it is such a huge obstacle to get over. The Bible so adamantly teaches that Jesus is God's Son!

2 Corinthian 4:1-4: "That is why, since we have this ministry according to the mercy that was shown us, we do not give up; 2 but we have renounced the underhanded things of which to be ashamed, not walking with cunning, neither adulterating the word of God, but by making the truth manifest recommending ourselves to every human conscience in the sight of God. 3 If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through."

Notice especially verse 4

Answer 2

If you read the first part of the Gospel of John, it describes the trinity in a somewhat poetic form. It describes the concept of the trinity clearly enough, that non-trinitarian sects of Christianity have opted to alter the traditional interpretations to eliminate the reference of the "word becoming man" and such.

It's all in the first part of the first chapter of John, if you choose to look into the words.

As to why the terminology is not Biblical, neither is soteriology, apologetics, ecumenicism, lay-ministers, or many other concepts. We create words to describe certain themes in scripture; that doesn't mean that the concepts are not already there.

BTW.... I'm not a Christian, but more a seeker of truth, and still recognize that many arguments against Christianity come from an ignorance of where Christians find their faith. This is one example.

Answer 3

In my lowly opinion, after reading up on the history of it... the "Church Fathers" seemed to have used this as a way to compete with all of the Pagan religions out there. It seems, for all of the talk about Paganism, that there are actually very few that realize the entire definition given by Christianity in general for the Trinity has Always been in Paganism for all of their Godmen. There is, really, only one verse that even comes close to describing such a Trinity... *there are 3 that bear record in heaven, God, his Son and the Holy Spirit*. Though, personally, I view this type of thing as stating they are all one in Spirit, one Mind. Not actually one being/entity.

Answer 4

Because the term came out after all the writings. It was a poetic attempt to describe what the Bible reveals about the nature of God.

So I am not really concerned with the term. What I really care about is that the Bible accurately calls all three God, One God. It's a mystery, sure. But it is evident in the Bible, especially if you have a concordance and the proper verses.

Answer 5

The writers of the Bible wrote the story of salvation, in God's own words.

God knows who he is, and we couldn't define him properly with words, no matter how hard we tried.

If you're that worried about it, why not stick to the original languages? "Elohim" certainly conveyed a concept of a triune God, long before anyone could have suspected it.

The Bible is not a theological textbook, and the word "Bible" isn't in the Bible either. So why do you call it that?

Get over it.

Answer 6

1Jo 5:7 For there are three bearing witness in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.

Mat 3:16 And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water. And, behold! The heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God coming down as a dove, and coming upon Him.
Mat 3:17 And behold! A voice out of the heaven saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have been delighting.

Here we have Jesus, Son of God and divine, the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) and the Father speaking. Three manifestations of God.

Answer 7

Look at Ephesians 1 and 2.
And yes a good concordance would help.
But Jesus is God and God is the Holy Spirit too- God gives us His spirit when we are saved, and God became flesh, as Jesus when He came to die and rise again ( John 1:1)
Also Jesus is called the Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, in Revelation---and only God is the beginning and the end.
They are one in the same, and the Holy Spirit too is in them...so they are 3 persons in one---and that is why we say "trinity" and the greek word I forget.....but go to blueletterbible.org for the greek and hebrew terms.

Answer 8

My goodness, we have gone over this umpteen times. If you read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation you will clearly see that each person of the trinity is clearly spoken about, each had dealings with humans, its so clear. Study the Bible with a good Bible teacher then tell us there is no Trinity. www.ttb.org is an excellent bible teacher, study for yourself so you know what you are saying.

Answer 9

termiinologies that come from scripture is biblical.

doctrines rely on concepts - patterns seen in scripture. combining verses properly discerned to go together. and from these come phrases to easily refer to those concepts.
those phrases become terminology.

or

a terminology stands in the place of certain concepts. if there were actual words like trinity.. then it would not need to be called terminology.

Answer 10

Matthew12:32;28:19;
Luke12:10;
Acts2:33;
1stCorinthians12:4-6;
2ndCorinthians13:14;
Hebrews9:14;
1stPeter3:18
How's that for terminlogies originating from the Bible?