Introduction

As I said before, according to the Scripture, the Godhead consists of Three Divine Persons, that is, God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. So God is one, but He exists in Three Persons. This doctrine is commonly called the doctrine of the Trinity: it is a very important doctrine, which was attacked in the past and is still attacked by many people across the world, and it is one of the doctrinal basis of our faith.

Before I show you the Trinity from the Scriptures, I want to say something about the word ‘Trinity,’ which does not occur in the Holy Scriptures. The word ‘Trinity’ comes from the Latin word Trinitas, which means ‘triad’ or ‘state of being three-fold’, which was coined by Tertullian of Carthage (one of the so called Church Fathers), toward the end of the second century after Christ, to explain the scriptural concept that the Godhead consists of Three Divine Persons, that is, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Therefore the fact that the word ‘Trinity’ does not occur in the Scriptures is relative because, as we have already seen and as we are going to see better in a few moments, the concept of a Triune God is abundantly present within the Scriptures. Just as the expression ‘the immortality of the soul’ does not occur in the Bible, yet in the Bible is present the concept of the immortality of the human soul, so even though the word ‘trinity’ does not occur in the Bible, in it is present the concept of the Trinity.

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