Is the Trinity taught in the Bible and why does it matter?

What's the deal with the doctrine of the Trinity? Is it biblical? Do Trinitarians believe in more than one God? How did first-century Jews who believed in the Shema come to worship a man, Jesus, as divine? Did the Two Powers in Heaven theology (as written about by Alan Segal) have any bearing on this issue?

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Does the Trinity teach three Gods?
01:23 What is the Trinity
02:36 Hints of God's plurality in the Tanakh (Old Testament, Hebrew Bible)
05:15 Genesis 18 and quote from Benjamin Sommer
07:55 Two Powers in Heaven
13:00 Five truths that reveal the Trinity
13:56 Examples from Scripture
17:08 The beauty and necessity of the Trinity
19:47 Wrap it up, Solberg

[mattjohnson]

In the Old Testament God manifested himself on Earth as a talking burning plant. Why is it so hard to believe that God the Creator could choose to manifest himself in human flesh if He so willed?

[miken]

Rob, you know what makes me happy? To see your views and likes going up to like 3.7, etc. I love it.

[TalkingOutOfSchool]

For someone who had an evil earthly father, it was beyond difficult to imagine how my “Father in heaven” could really love me, because I was taught the Father sends another person - another spirit - to deal with me in His stead. What earthly father even asks his neighbor to go and hug his child, and says “tell them for me that I love them, and am with them?” Why doesn't my own father, from my own household, tell me himself? When I finally grasped the total impossibility that Our Father's love can be coldly outsourced to another, was when my eyes were opened to see that my own Father was indeed hands on teaching and touching me through His Spirit the whole time. He gave me these verses for you:

(Eph 4:4) *There is one body, and one Spirit, * ...

(Eph 4:6) *One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.*

(Matt 10:20) For it is not ye that speak, but *the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.*

(John 17:20) Neither pray I for these alone, *but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;*

(John 17:21) That *they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:* ...

[PUSHTim]

Thank you for your time in explaining this Rob. You articulate this truth very well!♥️♥️♥️

[schellycraft]

The comment section is going to be rough on this one too :))

[Jamesjacob]

Trinity is but it is very hard for some people to Trinitarian Christians are not misrepresenting anything

[onlinemoney]

Wow what a beautiful explanation,
God bless you, and your ministry my brother, 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[ThomasBrennanthombre]

Mark 3:28–29 (ESV): 28 “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

[interpretingscripture]

Interesting history!! Great insights brother! :)

[ShaulTzuar]

Finally something we agree on!!! There is clear evidence that the trinity is three in one from scripture!

There is extra biblical evidence from Jewish sources that many sages even believed that GOD was a plural unity.

[JonathanGrandt]

Good and clear teaching. I have always been a little on the fence in regard to The Trinity and end up in a more Binitarian position… but I am open to listening and learning.

[ThomasBrennanthombre]

Matthew 3:16–17 (ESV): 16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

[mf]

The ultimate red line in Christianity is The Trinity. If you reject The Trinity, you are not Christian at all. If you do not have The Right God, you do not have The Right Jesus and you do not have The Right Gospel.
The Trinity is so Beautiful. Glory to our Beautiful Triune God !!!

[josetrevino]

Hebrews 10:26-31
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

[chenielchic]

very well said brother. i learnt a lot from this video.

[joshkaye]

Understanding the Trinity correctly is understanding the Hierarchy correctly also. Too often people blur the lines between Father, Son and Spirit and pray to each interchangeably without regard to protocol as though they were all one and the same. Is that what scripture teaches? The protocol as far as I can see it is to pray to the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[quesostuff]

I always equated the trinity to higher dimensional shapes

As much as 2D/3D shapes makes sense and we can even visualize it

Ask me to draw a 4D cube, and even though I know it exists, I can barely understand how that even can be visually represented

I also try to not use analogies to describe the trinity as typically one of those heresy will creep up (think of Modelism Patrick)

The idea that a transcended creator that is beyond space and time can interact with its finite creations is a funky one. But at least the concept of God’s multi personhood goes all the way back to good ole Genesis, so I just see the trinity as a theological evolution on those breadcrumbs found in OT

[paultkalec]

The trinity concept is mimicked in our lives - body, soul and spirit. If we view the Holy Trinity as one God, the same way we view anything that is made of components - such as a building, a car, etc - then it’s not difficult to understand.

[PUSHTim]

I LOVE that last bit about the Father giving all authority to the Son and the Son only doing what He see the Father doing and the Spirit not seeking His own glory but revealing to us the revelation of who God is (i know I didn’t say that last bit right) …it would make a great short clip!♥️♥️♥️Shalom

[joshuamelton]

Very informative video about the Trinity. There are plenty of people who would create strawman of what Christians believe about the trinue nature of God.

I was listening to Dr Michael Heiser video and he mentioned about the Angel of the LORD being Yahweh.

There were 2 passage of scripture that he used talking about the Angel of the LORD

Genesis 31:11-13 "11Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob, ’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’ 12And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. 13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred"

The Angel of God told Jacob that He was the God of Bethel.

The second verse of scripture is found in Genesis 48:15-16 when Israel was giving to blessings over the sons of Joseph which state:

15And he blessed Joseph and said,

“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
16 the Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”