Is God A Trinity PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

CHAPTER ONEIs theTrinity Biblical?THE belief that God is one substance, yet three persons,is one of the central doctrines of the Christianreligion. The concept of the Trinity is believed bymost professing Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant.A Gallup Poll taken in 1966 found that 97% of theAmerican public believed in God. Of that number, 83%believed that God is a Trinity.Yet for all this belief in the Trinity, it is a doctrinethat is not clearly understood by most Christian laymen.In fact, most have neither the desire nor the incentive tounderstand what their church teaches. Few laymen areaware of any problems with the doctrine of the Trinity.They simply take it for granted - leaving the mysteriousdoctrinal aspects to theologians.And if the layman were to investigate further, hewould be confronted with discouraging statements similarto the following: "The mind of man cannot fully understandthe mystery of the Trinity, He who would try tounderstand the mystery fully will lose his mind. But hewho would deny the Trinity will lose his soul" (HaroldLindsell and Charles J, Woodbridge, A Hand book ofChristian Truth, pp, 51-52),Such a statement means that the concept of the Trinityshould be accepted or else. But, merely to accept it asdoctrine without proving it would be totally contrary to