Bible Study Aid -- Is God a Trinity? [ Audiobook ]

United Church of God

The Trinity is one of mainstream Christianity’s most widely accepted and revered doctrines. The belief that God is three persons coexisting in one being or substance, as the doctrine is often defined, is held by millions of Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox believers alike. What is the truth? Listen to this audiobook or read other Bible study aids online at ucg.org/booklets.

  • 01 - Introduction: Is God a Trinity?
    Even though it's one of mainstream Christianity's most widely accepted and revered doctrines, theologians admit that the Trinity is largely incomprehensible.
    4 June 2018, 7:22 pm
  • 02 - Is the Trinity Biblical?
    Surely a teaching as widespread and popular as the Trinity is scriptural, isn't it? Yet time and again, theologians and researchers admit it isn't found in the Bible.
    4 June 2018, 7:20 pm
  • 03 - The Surprising Origins of the Trinity Doctrine
    Few understand how the Trinity doctrine came to be accepted - several centuries after the Bible was completed! Yet its roots go back much farther in history.
    4 June 2018, 7:18 pm
  • 04 - Greek Philosophy's Influence on the Trinity Doctrine
    Many historians and religious scholars, some quoted in this publication, attest to the influence of Greek or Platonic philosophy in the development and acceptance of the Trinity doctrine in the fourth century. But what did such philosophy entail, and how did it come to affect the doctrine of the Trinity?
    4 June 2018, 7:17 pm
  • 05 - How Ancient Trinitarian Gods Influenced Adoption of the Trinity
    Many who believe in the Trinity are surprised, perhaps shocked, to learn that the idea of divine beings existing as trinities or triads long predated Christianity. Yet, as we will see, the evidence is abundantly documented.
    4 June 2018, 7:15 pm
  • 06 - A Spurious Reference to the Trinity Added in 1 John 5 verses 7-8
    Some Bible translators of past centuries were so zealous to find support for their belief in the Trinity in the Scriptures that they literally added it. A case in point is 1 John 5:7-8.
    4 June 2018, 7:13 pm
  • 07 - How Is God Revealed in the Bible?
    A true understanding of God comes from only one source - God's revelation to mankind, the Bible. What does it reveal about God the Father and Jesus Christ?
    4 June 2018, 7:11 pm
  • 08 - Jesus Was Sent by the Father
    The preexistent Word, who later became Jesus Christ, was sent to earth by the Father in heaven. The Gospel of John bears record to this truth many times.
    4 June 2018, 7:09 pm
  • 09 - Jesus Christ: "The Rock" of the Old Testament
    The apostle Paul affirms that the God the Israelites of the Old Testament knew - the One they looked to as their "Rock" of strength (see Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 18:2) - was the One we know as Jesus Christ.
    4 June 2018, 7:08 pm
  • 10 - The Apostles Understood Jesus to Be the Creator
    The book of Hebrews speaks of the Son of God as the Being through whom God created the worlds (Hebrews 1:2) and who "sustains all things by his powerful word" (verse 3, NRSV). Only God is great enough to do such things.
    4 June 2018, 7:05 pm
  • 11 - Did Jesus Christ Claim to Be God?
    In addition to directly claiming in John 8:58 to be the "I AM" and having a Jewish crowd try to stone Him as a result (verse 59), as explained in this chapter, Jesus equated Himself with Yhwh of the Old Testament in other ways as well. Let's notice some of these.
    4 June 2018, 6:55 pm
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