The word “Trinity” is never used, nor is the doctrine of Trinitarianism ever explicitly taught in the Scriptures, but Trinitarianism is the best explanation of the biblical evidence. The theological exposition of the doctrine arose from clear…scriptural teaching. It is a crucial doctrine for Christianity because it focuses on who God is, and particularly on [...]
The Trinity
The Trinity is revealed to us only in the Bible. God has revealed some things to us through nature and through conscience. But the Trinity is not among them. This He has revealed to us by supernatural revelation and by supernatural revelation alone. ~ J. Gresham Machen
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The Divine Trinty by Herman Bavinck
The Eternal Being reveals Himself in His triune existence even more richly and vitally than in His attributes. It is in this holy trinity that each attribute of His Being comes into its own, so to speak, gets its fullest content, and takes on its profoundest meaning. It is only when we contemplate this trinity [...]
The Triune God by J. Gresham Machen
Machen (1881-1937) was Professor of New Testament, first at Princeton Theological Seminary, and afterwards at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Excerpts from The Christian Faith in the Modern World (1936). The Bible tells us there is a personal God, Creator and Ruler of the World. God, according to the Bible, is not another name for the [...]
The Trinity by Michael Bremmer
‘Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Host, the whole earth is filled of His glory’ (Isa. 6.3) Throughout the history of the Christian church numerous persons and groups have denied the Trinity. We will begin this study by examining these anti-Trinitarian views. TRITHEISM Tritheism teaches that there exists three Gods, not three persons, within [...]
The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity by Benjamin B. Warfield
The term ‘Trinity’ is not a Biblical term, and we are not using Biblical language when we define what is expressed by it as the doctrine that there is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in [...]
God In Three Persons by R.A. Finlayson
God is, and God is knowable. These two affirmations of faith form the foundation and inspiration of all religion. Christianity is distinctive in that it claims that God is known only in His self-revelation. In this self-revelation, however, the existence and nature of God are not subjects of definition. But man is called to follow [...]
An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity by Jonathan Edwards
IT IS COMMON when speaking of the Divine happiness to say that God is infinitely happy in the enjoyment of Himself, in perfectly beholding and infinitely loving, and rejoicing in, His own essence and perfection, and accordingly it must be supposed that God perpetually and eternally has a most perfect idea of Himself, as it [...]
