Is Jesus the Trinity?
1) Direct Answer
No. Jesus is not “the Trinity.” The Bible never teaches three divine persons. Jesus is the one true God manifested in flesh; in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD (Deuteronomy 6:4).
- God was manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16).
- In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9).
- He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father… the Father that dwelleth in Me (John 14:9-10).
- I and My Father are one (John 10:30).
- His name shall be called… The mighty God, The everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).
- God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19).
- They shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us (Matthew 1:23).
- The Comforter… even the Spirit of truth… I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you (John 14:17-18).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- It’s not three Gods, and it’s not three persons. One God revealed Himself in different ways: as Father above us, in the Son with us, and as the Holy Spirit in us.
- The “Son” speaks of the body born of a virgin—the beginning of God’s manifestation in flesh. The indwelling in that body was the Father. The Holy Spirit is that same one God coming back to indwell believers.
- So Jesus is not a “Trinity.” He is the full revelation of the one God. All that the Father is, and all that the Holy Spirit is, was in Jesus Christ.
- Notice the Scripture says “the name” (singular) in Matthew 28:19, and the apostles used that Name in baptism (Acts 2:38). The one Name that reveals Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the Lord Jesus Christ. That shows oneness, not three persons.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Show one verse that says “three persons in the Godhead.” It isn’t there. But the Bible plainly says God was manifested in Christ, and in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. That’s the mystery—one God made known in Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews, Chapter 2, part 2
57-0825E §42
...this book, of Sunday School teaching? Oh, thank you very much, that's fine. Now, I want to read now from Acts the second chapter, beginning at the thirty-second verse: This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we ... are witnesses. [They knew it.] Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has shed forth this, which you now see and hear. Now listen at him speak about David, one of the angels: For David is not ascended into ... heaven: but he sai...
What was the Holy Ghost given for?
59-1217 §10
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Show us the Father and it will suffice us
62-0722 §65
...is the mystery of godliness: for God was manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, believed on, received up into glory." We seen God express Himself through his Son, Christ Jesus. Now, God above us, God with us, now God in us. All that God was He poured into Christ, and all Christ was He poured into the church. "Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more; yet ye shall see me, for I [and I is a personal pronoun], I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the consummation." Hallelujah! Glory! Jesus Christ t...
Godhead explained
61-0119A §58
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God testifying of His gifts
52-0713E §1
...ieves it. God, You speak each night, and vindicate it's the truth. Truly, we're not much in this world, we're looked down upon, but God, we believe we're accepted in Christ Jesus, and He in return, has give us the Holy Ghost. We love Him, that great, third Person of the trinity, who burns through our hearts. And we love Him. O Holy Spirit, I thank You for Your divine leading, and how You led me here, to Hammond. And God, in that great matter of last night, God bless that young woman. Make her that, out yonder, Lord...