Is the Trinity explicitly taught in the Bible?
AbsentScripture does not address this specific claim.
The word "Trinity" and the formula "one being in three co-equal, co-eternal persons" appear in no biblical passage, but the underlying scriptural data (one God, the Son identified as God, the Spirit as a distinct divine person, all three grouped under one name) is genuinely and strongly present.
No passage uses the word "Trinity" or states the formula "one being, three co-equal co-eternal persons"; the explicit formula is absent from the text, even though the underlying realities it describes, one God, the Son called God, the Spirit as a distinct divine person, all three grouped under a single name, are directly attested at high authority levels.
What scripture leaves unaddressed: The specific formula "Trinity", one divine being subsisting in three co-equal, co-eternal persons, is stated in no passage of scripture. The text is silent on that precise metaphysical framing, even though it supplies the raw data the formula attempts to systematize.
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