Is the Trinity Essential for Salvation?

Jesus came to save mankind, but do we need to understand His role in the Trinity to receive His salvation?

[shanewalsh]

Where does the Bible teach that believing in the Triune god is ESSENTIAL to salvation?

[kiwihans]

Notice the two people talking do not have even one bible on the table! The whole of the NT can be summed up in Jesus emphatic statement "God loved the world SO MUCH " (John 3:16). If God just turned himself into a man & then reversed the process how different to our heavanly father actually sending his REAL, beloved Son down to earth to be mistreated, rejected and horribly killed, just for the sake of saving unworthy, sinful humans! The trinity makes a mockery of God's love.( 1 John 4:9).

[johnlawson]

There is One God, the Father.

John 17:3

[kiwihans]

If Jesus has a 'role in the trinity to receive His salvation' as is claimed here, then how come Jesus disciples are never recorded in scripture or in the 1/2nd century even mentioning the 'trinity'! Was their preaching then in vain? Of course not! The 'trinity' only became a 'touchstone' of orthodox faith from 325ad and was imposed by the roman emperors! In 1612 in the UK two upright christian men were burned alive because they denied the 'trinity' ( Bartholomew Legate & Edward Whightman). Even today people are consigned to hell if they dont accept this manmade explanation. How far we have come from Jesus & the apostles!

[redfritz]

Who send the Son? The Father. How do we become children of God? Being born again of the Spirit and the Gospel of Christ. All Three In One is involved in saving us.

[SamuelNotTheProphet]

Idk man. I'm trinitarian, but I think someone can fully trust in Jesus even if they hold an incorrect or incomplete christology.

[jollyrancher]

Besides the fact that there is no statement of the Trinity doctrine in the Bible (three persons in one God, all coequal, coeternal and consubstantial), here are just a few scriptures that show that Jesus is not God:

Jesus prays to the Father calling him “the only true God” (John 17:3)
There is but one God, the Father (1 Corinthians 8:6)
God made Jesus both Lord and Messiah (Acts 2:36)
The head of Christ is God (1 Corinthians 11:3)
God exalted Jesus and gave him authority (Philippians 2:9-11)
Christ subjects himself to God (1 Corinthians 15:27-28)
Jesus said “Believe in God, believe also in me” (John 14:1)
Jesus referred to the Father as “my God” (John 20:17, Revelation 3:12)
No one has ever seen God (John 1:18, 1 Tim 6:16, 1 John 4:12)
Jesus did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped (Philippians 2:6)
Jesus said “Why do you call me good? No one is good—except God alone.” (Luke 18:18-19)
Stephen sees Jesus at God's right hand (Acts 7:55-56)
God raised Jesus from the dead (Acts 2:32, 1 Corinthians 6:14, Galatians 1:1, 1 Peter 1:21)
Christians are heirs of God but co-heirs with Jesus (Romans 8:16-17)

[rsk]

So, if I read the bible and believe it and follow it but don't come to the conclusion that God is three persons I'm not a Christian? Even though the bible says there is one God, the father and gives me this impression quite a lot? I doubt if the average Joe Bloggs Christian would conclude the Trinity if left to themselves without pressure and threats such as in this video. I take the threats very seriously but I have the right to find out for myself. I know I repented of my sin, and turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and I don't need anyone to tell me if I'm saved or not. If someone doesn't recognise me as a brother then they are missing out on my gift and are saying the eye has no need of the hand.

[gcrrt]

The trinity is not in the Bible. Get ready for some plagues.

Revelation 22:18-19
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

Get - it.

[kiwihans]

Look if the 'trinity' was 'essential for salvation' then why from Pentecost of 33AD tiill the council of Nicea 325AD, ( nealy 300 years difference!) was no mention of the 'trinity' made by the apostles as 'essential for faith'? Jude in 55AD said "The FAITH was delivered ONCE FOR ALL TIME to the Holy ones" ) Jude 3. At Pentecost when Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit which he in turn "Received of the Father" ( acts 2:33) why didnt Peter mention the 'trinity'? The answer is quite simple! It is because it is NOT a bible teaching but the result of manmade philosophy and an effort to explain who God is. Therefore its FALSE!

[rudolfberki]

The trinity is a false pagan doctrine and whosoever believes in it, worships a false pagan god, the trinity god which is not biblical. In the Bible we only find two distinct divine beings: God, the Father, and His [only begotten] Son, known to us by the name of Jesus Christ. And regarding the Holy Sprit the Scriptures tell us that it is the Spirit of God and of the Son.

John 14:1
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me."

John 17:3
"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

1 Corinthians 8:6
"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."

Deuteronomy 6:4
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:"

1 John 2:22
"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."

Two divine beings, and not three.

Galatians 4:6
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."

And God said, I quote,

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." (Exodus 20:3)