Bible fundamentalists, do you believe in the Trinity? Please explain why.?

Question

Where in the Bible is the doctrine of the Trinity explained?

Is the Trinity originally a Catholic doctrine that has been adopted by most other Christian sects?

To Catholics who answered this question, I understand the why the Catholics believe in the Trinity. However, my question is directed at Bible fundamentalists. They accept the Trinity even though it is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible. I want to know the basis or the origin of their belief in the dotrine. Is it something that they figured out solely from the Bible? Or do they recognize the doctrine as of Catholic origin (based not only on the Bible but also on Sacred Traditions) and they just matter-of-factly accepted it and assimilated it into their doctrines?

Answer 1

It is a false premise that the Trinity has to be proven in the Bible. The Bible is not a textbook, dictionary or reference book to be used as a battleground for proving or disproving dogmas. The primary purpose of the Bible is for spiritual nourishment and to promote unity, not disunity. The Bible should be regarded as love story filled with real magic. The dogma of the trinity was formulated from parts of Scripture, reason, and faith. The Catholic Church received from Scripture itself the infallible authority to formulate the doctrine of the trinity (Matt XVI: verses 18-19). Now one can use parts of scripture to interpret verses as referring to the trinity, but which will not necessarily prove it. Son of God implies divinity. Trinity explains HOW Jesus is literally God. John 8-46-59 "....before Abraham was made, I Am." St Luke: chap 1, verse 35 brings all three entities together. These are just some of the parts of scripture that were used to formulate the doctrine and can now be interpreted in that manner.

Answer 2

We (Mormons) consider God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit to be one God because they are united, not because they are the same being. We do believe Jesus to be the actual physical son of God. He prayed to his father Eli (a form of El or Elohim). He didn't pray to himself. When he died, he didn't go home to God. When he was resurrected, he told Mary that he had not yet ascended to his father. It wasn't until after Jesus was restored to his physical frame that he could ascend to his father. This isn't a euphemism. His father too has a physical nature. In fact this is one of the purposes of the atonement - to allow all men to one day resurrect and live with God (if they are worthy) as physical beings. Mormons follow the Bible much more closely that other Christians. The doctrine of the Trinity is a late Greek philosophical corruption. To the Greeks, anything with a physical nature was evil, therefore God could not be physical. The Romans were enamored of Greek philosophy and didn't set it aside when they converted to Christianity. Instead, they combined the two disparate beliefs.

Answer 3

Lemme put it in the best way:

Jesus=God

Jesus is God's son, but Jesus was also half flesh, half holy spirit
or flesh with all holy spirit. God and Jesus have the holy spirit, so if Jesus has the holy spirit along with God the father of all and Jesus, That makes them at the same plane. Holy spirit= God. Jesus has the Holy Spirit.
It's kind of like the president and an average American citizen. They are both humans, but the president just has a higher ranking than the average American citizen.

It doesn't say the word trinity in the bible because that word wasn't adopted until centuries later. But here is the trinity in the bible.

# Matt. 28:18, Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
# 2 Cor. 13:14, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
# Eph. 4:4-7, There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 7But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
# Jude 20-21, "But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith; praying in the Holy Spirit; 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life."

Answer 4

We can not FULLY understand the Trinity, but the scripures are pretty plain that God IS Trinity:

Jesus tells his apostles to baptize "in the name [notice, singular, not plural] of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19). This is a proof-text: three distinct Persons united in the one divine name. In 2 Corinthians 13:14, Paul writes, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." We see this same unity of divine Persons in 1 Corinthians 12:4–11, Ephesians 4:4–6, and 1 Peter 1:2–3.

The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God (cf. John 8:58, 10:38, 14:10; Col. 2:9). It also clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is God (cf. Acts 5:3–4, 28:25–28; 1 Cor. 2:10–13). Everyone agrees the Father is God. Yet there is only one God (Mark 12:29, 1 Cor. 8:4–6, Jas. 2:19). How can we hold all four truths except to say all three are One God?

And yes, Jesus DID say he was God. In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).

Also significant are passages that apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god’" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).

Answer 5

The word trinity does not occur in the Bible. It's an explanation for the fact that there are three names for God in the New Testament - God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit. They are regarded as referring to one God because they each have the same characteristics. For example each is described as omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, eternal, Lord, God, Almighty, being involved in creation, the truth, sanctifying and giving life, giving eternal life, raising the dead and inspiring the prophets. They are describing one being - God.

Answer 6

Actually we only know of 3 persons... It can be many more!

edit: They are pretty freaky, too... An Old Man for a Father, A Young man for a Son and a Ghost for a Holy Spook!

Answer 7

The trinity is NOT a Bible teaching. It is pagan and God-dishonouring.

By the way, even the CONCEPT is not there. It's a matter of people trying to squeeze a pagan teaching into the Bible.

People- be honest at least with yourselves- if NO ONE had ever told you that Jesus is God and that he is equal to God, from your own Bible reading- would you yourself have come to that conclusion?

Answer 8

The first mention of the Trinity is found in Genesis 1:28 where God says "Let US make man in OUR image". If God is not a "multiple being", to who was he speaking?

In Genesis 2:7 you have the details of how man was made. God formed a 1)body from the elements of the earth, breathed into it from his own 2)spirit and man became a living 3)soul. Just as God is made of three beings, so is man - spirit, soul and body.

Each works in a different realm, has a different function, and operates with different laws. The body touches the physical and is restricted by time and space. The soul (made up of the mind, will and emotions) works in the mental realm, and has not direct influence on physical objects. Nor it is limited by the laws of physics. The spirit communciated in the spiritual or heavenly realm where God himself dwells.

Each is a different "being", but all make up one person. The body is just as much "you" as the mind or the spirit. Without all three, you could not function.

So God operates in all three of the realms that man touches. He is known as God the Father in the spiritual or heavenly realm. He appeared as God the Son (Jesus) in the physical realm. And he dwells within the hearts of his people as God the Holy Spirit in the soul realm. Three different person, parts, function, or manifestations, that form together the one GOd. Each is just as much "God" as any other the other. But it takes all three for God to function.

If you read through the Bible, you will find dozens of references to God being Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Jesus instructed his disciples to teach people about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, using that in their baptism rituals.
Paul speaks of him on three occasions as being a "Godhead", that is a being formed of multiple persons.
Isaiah refers to him in the Old Testament as Wonderful Counselor (Holy Spirit), Prince of Peace (Jesus), Everlasting Father (the Father) and the Almighty God (the Trinity).
Daniel speaks of seeing the Messiah (Jesus) standing next to the Ancient of Days (The Father) surrounded by the Spirit in heaven
David in the Psalms records several conversations between the different members of the Trinity.
Abraham saw them pass through the animals he had laid out as a sacrifice at least 1500 years before Jesus' birth. Jesus refers in John 6 to Abraham having seen him then.
There is at least one reference in every book of the Bible to the "multiple" form in which God exist.

The word "Trinity" itself is not found in the scriptures. It was first used by a church leader about 80 years after the resurrection of Jesus. He is the same person who coined the words "Old Testament" and "New Testament" and several other important terms. He did not invent the concept of the Trinity. He was just the first to apply that word to the teaching. Note that the word is from the Latin language. "Tri" for three, and "nity" for "unity" or "oneness". As the earlier disciples spoke Greek, not Latin, the word "trinity" would make no sense in their language.

The concept of the Trinity is taught in hundreds of scriptures throughout the Bible. It is God appearing as a person in each of the realms that man touches.

Answer 9

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.


Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

1John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.


1John 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

Answer 10

I believe in a triune God, yes. And the Bible is quite clear on that teaching, though the word "trinity" isn't mentioned. Christ, being God's Son, is certainly mentioned as being God incarnate (in the flesh), as is God's Holy Spirit. Thus you have one God, manifest 3 ways.

God bless!