Someone writes, “I would like to know what is the ‘holy trinity’ and where in the Bible scriptures is the answer supported.” Though the word “trinity” does not appear in the English translation of the Bible, the matter represented by the word “trinity” is taught in the Scriptures. Scholars familiar with the original languages in which the Bible was written inform us that the word for “God” in Genesis 1:26 is plural, indicating that more than one person is meant by that term. In addition, the pronouns “us” and “our” in the same verse refer to a plural number of persons within the term “God” of Genesis 1:26. The word “Godhead” appears three times in our English Bibles (Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20; Colossians 2:9), and the term means “godlike” or “divine.” This divinity is ascribed in Scripture to three divine persons (i.e., Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19; John 14:26). No more injustice is done by using the word “trinity” to refer to a biblical subject than is any injustice to Scripture incurred by using a term like “eschatology” to refer to final things (i.e., the Second Coming of Christ, the Great Judgment, assignment of eternal destinies). Understood in the context of doctrines taught in the Bible, either of these terms briefly announces a broad biblical subject.
