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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Questions and Answers
54-0515 §85
First thing, is to straighten out you on your trinity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Now, in the first place, not one place in the Bible is trinity ever mentioned. You find it and show it to me. There's no such a thing. It's Catholic error, and you Protestants bow to it. Notice, now, what is this? Now, I said this is who? Father. This is who? Son. And this is who? [Congregation says, "Holy Ghost!"] Now, the Father is the father of who? The Son. Is that right? Now, this is Jesus' Father. Don't get them mixed up, now. Th...
The testimony of Jesus Christ
53-0829 §48
...s many superstitions, and things, and little psychic moves and so forth that doesn't build on the foundation. But this is Scripturally, my dear friend, on the Word of God. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," see. All right. Now, I am not He. He is in the building. He is in every individual here. How many seen that picture in that book? Let's see your hands. Or, the picture of the Angel of the Lord. Well, I will have to give you the story of it some night. And maybe bring some of the pictures in....
Calling Jesus on the scene
63-0804E §17
God dwelt in Christ, and in Him was the fullness of the Godhead bodily---God expressing Himself through Jesus, and Jesus was the vindication of God. Can you understand it now? See, not three people; three attributes of one God. Not three gods---three god's heathen, see. Not three gods. Not ... Father, Son, and Holy Ghost isn't three different gods; it's one God in three manifestations. God the Father in the form of the Holy Spirit was in a pillar of fire that no one could touch around Him. He was holy. No sin offer...
Looking at the unseen
58-1003 §59
All you sick people that raised your hands, if Jesus will come and do the same thing that He did when He was here on earth, through human bodies... I was astonished the other day, when I seen one of the greatest teachers, I thought, in the world... He is a great man; don't misunderstand me. Billy Graham, who the Lord is using, a great man... But it was a piece in the paper that some of the... Someone somewhere had wrote in to him and wanted to know what about the Trinity: was there actual three gods, or was there j...
Palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, caterpillar
59-0823 §102
...up and shake hands with the preacher and walk away. There's no place in the Bible they ever did receive ... or, ever was baptized, outside of being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. And there was no place in the Bible they ever taught trinity. It was always a "one God." "Hear, ye, O Israel, I'm the Lord your God, one God! Thou shall have no other gods before Me. I'm the Lord thy God." Not a Father, and a Son, and a Holy Ghost, but "I'm God!" Forever, He's God! He always was God, He always will be God.