What Is The Trinity? | FAQ Series | Week One
What Is The Trinity?
Words Not in The Bible
• Incarnation: Meaning God became flesh in Jesus Christ (John 1:1)
• Atheism: Worldview believing there is no God (Psalm 14:1)
• The ”Bible” (but Scripture is used several times)
The Trinity Found in Scripture
19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:19 (HCSB)
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the Devil, because God was with Him (Jesus).
Acts 10:38 (HCSB)
9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. 10 As soon as He came up out of the water, He saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending to Him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: You are My beloved Son; I take delight in You!
Mark 1:9-11 (HCSB)
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 (HCSB)
God Is One
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!
Deuteronomy 6:4 (NIV)
29 “This is the most important,” Jesus answered: Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
Mark 12:29 (HCSB)
30 The Father and I are one.”
John 10:30 (HCSB)
For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, Himself human,
1 Timothy 2:5 (HCSB)
yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from Him, and we exist for Him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through Him, and we exist through Him.
1 Corinthians 8:6 (HCSB)
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“It was a great day, it was a tough day.”
One Being (God)
Three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
One in Being, Three in Person
One in Essence, Three in Substance
God in Three Persons
God the Father
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:2 (HCSB)
4 When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
Galatians 4:4-6 (HCSB)
39 Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Matthew 26:39 (HCSB)
God the Son
13 while we wait for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Titus 2:13 (HCSB)
9 For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,
Colossians 2:9 (HCSB)
5 The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.
Romans 9:5 (HCSB)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created. 14The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1-3, 14 (HCSB)
God the Holy Spirit
15 After they went down there, they prayed for them, so the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For He had not yet come down on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 8:15-16 (HCSB)
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
Hebrews 3:7-8 (HCSB)
11 But one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as He wills.
1 Corinthians 12:11 (HCSB)
10 Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10-11 (HCSB)
30 And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:30 (HCSB)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2 (HCSB)
God is Three in Person
God is One in Essence
The Trinity is Distinct
The Trinity is Coequal
There is one answer for the ultimate expression of unity in diversity, and that’s the picture of community God has given us in the Trinity.
19 Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.
John 5:19 (HCSB)
Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son
so that the Son may glorify You, 2 for You gave Him authority over all flesh; so He may give eternal life
to all You have given Him. 3 This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ. 4 I have glorified You on the earth by completing the work You gave Me to do.
5 Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with that glory I had with You before the world existed.
John 17:1-5 (HCSB)
2 In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe through Him. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 1:2-3 (HCSB)