Is the concept of the Trinity actually found in the Bible?

Answer 1

Trinty comes from the Biblical term of the Father, Son and Holy Sprit being together as one.

Answer:

If you literally translate the word into English, it would be: 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 so since this would make no sense I assume the translators had to come up with a better way to explain it.

Answer 2

There are numerous attestations to the divinity of the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. There are also numerous attestations to identical characteristics. An example of this is Revelation 1 where both God almighty, the Father, is alpha and omega and later Jesus is Himself alpha and omega. God is light, Jesus is 'the light of the world' etc.

So, although much is made of the undoubted absence of the actual word the concept is abundantly present as is the oneness of God. Thus while it is quite correct to comment on the simple absence of the term 'Trinity', it is not correct at all to then conclude that the concept is absent when it is actually abundant.

In many different verses in The Bible, the Father is called God, Jesus is called God, and the Holy Spirit is called God, yet the Bible teaches that there is one God; hence, Christians believe God is a Trinity.

While the word 'Trinity' is not actually used in the Bible, there are passages that some see as referring to the Trinity. One of the most famous of these is the "Johannine Comma" (1 John 5:7), which refers indirectly to the concept of the Trinity. This was never in the early Greek manuscripts, only appearing in the Latin translation of the fifth century, after the Trinity doctrine had been accepted by the Council of Nicaea.

It appears likely that the Gnostic leader, Valentinus, was the first to formulate the concept of the Holy Trinity. His work, On the Three Natures, is mentioned by Marcellus of Ancryra, who said that the now-lost work discussed the Father, Son and Holy Ghost as three Persons of the Trinity.

Yes

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.:

This is the clearest, and pretty much the only, expression of the Trinitarian concept in the Bible. It is not, however, found in the earliest Greek manuscripts and is omitted from most modern translations.

Quote; The resulting passage is an explicit reference to the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and for this reason some Christians are resistant to the elimination of the Comma from modern Biblical translations. Nonetheless, nearly all recent translations have removed this clause, as it does not appear in older copies of the Epistle and it is not present in the passage as quoted by any of the early Church Fathers, who would have had plenty of reason to quote it in their Trinitarian debates (for example, with the Arians), had it existed then. click link 'Comma Johanneum ' below for full text

Answer 3

There is only one reference to the Trinity in the modern New Testament, at 1 John 5:7 , but this is known to be a later interpolation that was not in the earliest Greek manuscripts available to us. Otherwise, the New Testament does not mention the Holy Trinity.

It appears likely that the Gnostic leader, Valentinus, was the first to formulate the concept of the Holy Trinity. His work, On the Three Natures, is mentioned by Marcellus of Ancryra, who said that the now-lost work discussed the Father, Son and Holy Ghost as three Persons of the Trinity.

Tertullian, who is believed to have been converted to Christianity by 197 CE, introduced the term Trinity to the Christian vocabulary and also probably the formula "three Persons, one Substance". The Holy Trinity, as a formal doctrine, was adopted by the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE.

Answer 4

1 John 5:7

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Although "Trinity" is never used in the Bible, it is clear that God has revealed three aspects of Himself. God the Father, God the Son (also called the Word), and God the Holy Spirit. You can compare this to three sides of a triangle. No aspect of God is greater than another, and no aspect is separate from any other. If you use math to describe the Trinity, it would be 1 x 1 x 1 = 1, not 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.

Answer 5

While the word 'Trinity' is not actually used in the Bible, there are passages that some see as referring to the Trinity. One of the most famous of these is the "Johannine Comma" (1 John 5:7), which refers indirectly to the concept of the Trinity. This was never in the early Greek manuscripts, only appearing in the Latin translation of the fifth century, after the Trinity doctrine had been accepted by the Council of Nicaea.It appears likely that the Gnostic leader, Valentinus, was the first to formulate the concept of the Holy Trinity. His work, On the Three Natures, is mentioned by Marcellus of Ancryra, who said that the now-lost work discussed the Father, Son and Holy Ghost as three Persons of the Trinity.