2 John 1:3 There will be with us undeserved kindness, mercy [and] peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, with truth and love.
Isaiah 44:6 This is what Jehovah has said, the King of Israel and the Repurchaser of him, Jehovah of armies, ‘I am the first and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
Mattew 11:25 At that time Jesus said in response: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to babes.
Deut 10:17 For Jehovah YOUR God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the God great, mighty and fear-inspiring, who treats none with partiality nor accepts a bribe
Son is God
Gen. 31:11-13 Then the angel of the [true] God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob!’ to which I said, ‘Here I am.’ I am the [true] God of Beth´el, where you anointed a pillar and where you vowed a vow to me. Now get up, go out of this land and return to the land of your birth.’”
Ex. 23:20-23 Here I am sending an angel ahead of you to keep you on the road and to bring you into the place that I have prepared. Watch yourself because of him and obey his voice. Do not behave rebelliously against him, for he will not pardon YOUR transgression; because my name is within him.
Hosea. 12:4 And he kept contending with an angel and gradually prevailed. He wept, that he might implore favor for himself.” At Beth´el He got to find him, and there He began talking with us.
Gen. 32:28-30 Then he said: “Your name will no longer be called Jacob but Israel , for you have contended with God and with men so that you at last prevailed.” Hence Jacob called the name of the place Pe·ni´el, because, to quote him, “I have seen God face to face and yet my soul was delivered.”
Jdg. 13:21-23 Then it was that Ma·no´ah knew that he had been Jehovah’s angel. 22 Consequently Ma·no´ah said to his wife: “We shall positively die, because it is God that we have seen.”
Rev1:17 And when I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. And he laid his right hand upon me and said: “Do not be fearful. I am the First and the Last
1 Cor. 8:6 There is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and we through him.
Rev 19:16 And upon his outer garment, even upon his thigh, he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
2 cor 3:17 Now Jehovah is the Spirit; and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom.
God in two persons
Amos 4:11 I caused an overthrow among you people, like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gommorah, is the utterance of Jehovah.
Note that Jehovah says, He caused an overthrow just like God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Who is the God who overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah?
Gen 19:24 Then Jehovah made it rain sulphur and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens, upon Sod´om and upon Go•mor´rah
In Gen 19:24 there are two Jehovahs, one on the earth calling fire down from the other in the heavens! The God who overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah is none other than Jehovah.
Zechariah 10:12 And I will make them superior in Jehovah, and in his name they will walk about,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.”
Jeremiah 23:5-6 Look! There are days coming,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I will raise up to David a righteous sprout. And a king will certainly reign and act with discretion and execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel itself will reside in security. And this is his name with which he will be called, Jehovah Is Our Righteousness.
Zechariah 2:8-9 For this is what Jehovah of armies has said, ‘Following after [the] glory he has sent me to the nations that were despoiling YOU people; for he that is touching YOU is touching my eyeball. 9For here I am waving my hand against them, and they will have to become spoil to their slaves.’ And YOU people will certainly know that Jehovah of armies himself has sent me.
Isaiah 48:1 Hear this, O house of Jacob, YOU who are calling yourselves by the name of Israel and who have come forth from the very waters of Judah , YOU who are swearing by the name of Jehovah and who make mention even of the God of Israel, not in truth and not in righteousness.
Zechariah 3:1-3 And he proceeded to show me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand in order to resist him. Then [the angel of] Jehovah said to Satan: “Jehovah rebuke you, O Satan, yes, Jehovah rebuke you, he who is choosing Jerusalem! Is this one not a log snatched out of the fire?”
Jeremiah 50:40 Just as with God’s overthrow of Sod´om and of Go·mor´rah and of her neighbor [towns],” is the utterance of Jehovah, “no man will dwell there, nor will the son of mankind reside in her as an alien.
Zephaniah 1:8,9 And it must occur on the day of Jehovah’s sacrifice that I will give attention to the princes, and to the sons of the king, and to all those wearing foreign attire. 9 And I will give attention to everyone that is climbing upon the platform in that day, those who are filling the house of their masters with violence and deception.
Deuteronomy 9:10 then Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone written upon with God’s finger; and upon them were all the words that Jehovah had spoken with YOU in the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the congregation.
Note: The passage does not say, "The Jehovah delivered unto me two tables of stone which He Himself had written. See also:ANGEL of Jehovah not Jehovah?
God in three persons
Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit
It is interesting that Matthew 28:19 says ‘name,’ not ‘names,’ of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is because the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is inseparably joined by a singular common name, just like a married couple have one family name.
John 14:16 and I will request the Father and he will give YOU another helper to be with YOU forever
11 Cor. 13:14 The undeserved kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the sharing in the holy spirit be with all of YOU.
John 14: 26 But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach YOU all things and bring back to YOUR minds all the things I told YOU.
Is. 48.16-17 And now the Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself has sent me, even his spirit.
Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, for the reason that Jehovah has anointed me to tell good news to the meek ones.
Ephesians 4:4-6 One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all.
11 Cor. 1:21,22 But he who guarantees that YOU and we belong to Christ and he who has anointed us is God. He has also put his seal upon us and has given us the token of what is to come, that is, the spirit, in our hearts.
ALL THREE members were present at creation
Genesis 1:1,2 In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of [the] watery deep; and God’s active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.
Col. 1:15 By Him [Christ] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, ...all things were created through Him and for Him."
But some say, when God said let Us, he was taking counsel from angels. Is that the case?
Isaiah 40:13,14 Who has taken the proportions of the spirit of Jehovah, and who as his man of counsel can make him know anything? With whom did he consult together that one might make him understand, or who teaches him in the path of justice, or teaches him knowledge, or makes him know the very way of real understanding?
Gen. 11: 7 Come now! Let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not listen to one another’s language
Gen. 3:22 And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite
Genesis 1: 26 And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth
Isaiah 6 And I began to hear the voice of Jehovah saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I proceeded to say: “Here I am! Send me
Throughout the creation story in Genesis 1 the word for God is ’Elohim, the plural form of ’Eloha. Generally, this plural has been interpreted as a plural of majesty rather than of plurality. However, G. A. F. Knight has correctly argued that to make this a plural of majesty is to read into the ancient Hebrew text a modern concept, since the kings of Israel and Judah are all addressed in the singular in the biblical record.14 Furthermore, Knight points out that the Hebrew words for water and heaven are both plural. Grammarians have termed this phenomenon the quantitative plural. Water can appear in the form of small drops or large oceans. This quantitative diversity in unity, says Knight, is a fitting way of understanding the plural ’Elohim. This also explains why the singular noun ’Adonai is written as a plural. (Source : Adventist Bibilical Research, p2 Trinity in Scripture)
1 Peter 1:2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, with sanctification by the spirit, for the purpose of their being obedient and sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 9:14 How much more will the blood of the Christ, who through an everlasting spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works that we may render sacred service to [the] living God?
Ephesians 2:18 Because through him we, both peoples, have the approach to the Father by one spirit.
Galatians 3:14 The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham might come to be by means of Jesus Christ for the nations, that we might receive the promised spirit through our faith.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.
Romans 15:30 Now I exhort YOU, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the spirit, that YOU exert yourselves with me in prayers to God for me.
Romans 15:16 For me to be a public servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, engaging in the holy work of the good news of God, in order that the offering, namely, these nations, might prove to be acceptable, it being sanctified with holy spirit.
Acts 10:38 Namely, Jesus who was from Naz´a·reth, how God anointed him with holy spirit and power, and he went through the land doing good and healing all those oppressed by the Devil; because God was with him.
Acts 7:55 But he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand.
The word of God says that our God is one (Deuteronomy 6:4). How can they be three?
When we say or hear number ONE, we think number one in terms of numerical. In Gensis 2:24, when a man and wife get together, they become ONE, but yet they are two seperate persons. See below:
Genesis 2:24 That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one (’echad) flesh.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Listen, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one (’echad) Jehovah
Thus when it says God is one, it implies UNITY. Amos 4:11 and Genesis 19:24 clearly shows that there are two persons and they are referred to as Jehovah. So when it says Jehovah is one, it has to speaking about one in terms of unity and not numerical. Jesus said "I and the father are one" (John 10:30). Once again, one here means unity because Jesus and the Father are two seperate persons and yet part of one Godhead.
Further UNITY proofs:
Jude 4 My reason is that certain men have slipped in who have long ago been appointed by the Scriptures to this judgment, ungodly men, turning the undeserved kindness of our God into an excuse for loose conduct and proving false to our only Owner and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Deut 10:17 For Jehovah YOUR God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the God great, mighty and fear-inspiring, who treats none with partiality nor accepts a bribe
Mattew 11:25 At that time Jesus said in response: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to babes.
Therefore in scriptures, the words ONE or ONLY does not exclude the possiblity of unity. Even in the case of John 17:3!
So we see that God is in three (Tri) persons and yet they one (Unity) God. It is true that the word Trinity is not found in the bible (so is the word Millennium). But Tri-unity is very much biblical.
The Trinity doctrine is pagan?
The doctrine of the Trinity is based on Scripture not on pagan religions or human philosophy. Similar triadic constellations in other religions such as Brahma,Siva, and Visnu in Hinduism; Osiris, Isis, and Horus inthe Egyptian religion; or Nimrod, Ishtar, and Tammuz in Babylon are based on the family concept — father , mother, and son — which is not the case in the Christian religion. If there is any parallelism at all it would be evidence for a satanic counterfeit such as we find in the book of Revelation (the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet). (The doctrine of the Trinity among Adventists p. 8-9)
The doctrine of the Trinity is Catholic [papal] in origin?
The historical record gives us a different picture. Although the concept of the Trinity is scriptural, the doctrine was formulated at the ecumenical Council of Nicaea in AD 325. The Council summoned by Emperor Constantine assembled in Nicaea (Asia Minor) to deal with the Arian controversy. Of the 318 bishops only eight came from the West, the rest were from the Eastern churches where the bishop of Rome had very little influence. The bishop of Rome himself was not even present, he sent two priests to represent him. This clearly contradicts the claim that the Trinity is of Roman Catholic origin. (The doctrine of the Trinity among Adventists p. 8-9)
The doctrine of God in three persons teaches:
Each person is not ‘a’ God; rather it is the three persons that are God, or make up the ‘Godhead.’ It is similar to having a government, which is a singular word but the government is made up of a number of individual members. No single member is the government, but all make up that government as individual members.