The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion-the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. They are co-eternal and co-equal. They all are uncreated and omnipotent. There is therefore nothing created, nothing subject, to another in the Trinity.

The Father has never been without the Son, nor the Son without the Spirit; and this same Trinity is immutable and unalterable forever.

In addition to teaching that God comprises three persons, the doctrine also teaches that the son Himself has two distinct natures, one fully divine and the other fully human.

Neither the Old Testament nor New Testament uses the term “Trinity”, though the concept is implicit in various biblical passages.

The evidence of Trinity from the Gospels can be found in the baptismal commission of Matthew 28:20. “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”.

It is manifest from the narratives of the Evangelists that Christ only made the great truth known to the Twelve step by step. First He taught them to recognize in Himself the Eternal Son of God. When His ministry was drawing to a close, He promised that the Father would send another Divine Person, the Holy Spirit, in His place. Finally after His resurrection, He revealed the doctrine in explicit terms, bidding them “Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:18).

A few verses directly referring to the Trinity are as follows:

Matthew 3:16-17—Baptism of Jesus (also Mark 1:10-11; Luke 3:22; John 1:32)

2Corinthians 13:14—“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all”.

Luke 1:35—“And the Angel said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason the Holy Child shall be called the Son of God”.         

HINTS OF A PLURALITY IN GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

God speaks of himself as “us”:

Gen 1:26-27-- “Then 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 birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth’. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them”.