1. Definition: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one God, yet existing as three Persons without blending or dividing of substance, coequal and co-eternal.
2. Scripture: 1Pet.1:2; 2Cor.13:14; Mt.18:19; Jn.10:30; cp. Ps.110:1; cp. Isa.48:16; Deut.6:4; cp. Mk.12:29b; Gen.1:26; 3:22; 11:7 "let Us".
3. The Doctrine of the Trinity declares that God is one in essence and three in personality.
1. One in essence: One God without blending or dividing of substance, Isa.6:3 "Holy, Holy, Holy" (refers to the Lord [singular]); Mt.28:19 "in the name (singular) of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."
2. Three in personality: (when the Bible distinguishes between Their functions).
1. Salvation: Eph.1:36.
2. Revealed: Eph.1:13,14; Jn.14:36.
4. Each personality is made up of the same divine characteristics, Jn.16:15, making each one equal to the other.
5. The Lord Jesus Christ is the visible member of the Godhead, Jn.1:8; 6:46; Col.1:15; 1Jn.4:12; 1Tim.6:16.
6. On one occasion, all three members of the Godhead were manifest, Mt.3:1317 Jesus Christ, the dove (the Holy Spirit), and the Father's voice.
7. Light is analogous to the Godhead: one in essence, three in properties, 1Jn.1:5 (actinic, luminiferous, calorific).

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