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The question

I’m a Muslim and I have this question for you, I'm interested about Christianity and I have some questions about things that do not make any sense in my mind.

I want to ask you about a verse which talks about the Trinity!! By the way, you can’t find this word "trinity" anywhere in the Bible.

"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one." Can you give the chapter where can I find this verse and number of the verse?

The answer

The word "Trinity" is not mentioned in the Holy Bible, but the Holy Trinity is identified throughout the Holy Scripture: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, One God.

The Old Testament taught the people the Law and how to ascertain the truth. Thus, three witnesses are essential to verifying and validating the truth.

The verse to which you are referring is in the New Testament Epistles—1 John 5:7. St. John the Evangelist and writer of this letter and two other letters, one of the four accounts of the Holy Gospel, and the Holy Book of Revelation, focuses his expositions on the Lord's divinity. 

In 1 John 5:7, he emphasizes the established truth of the Holy Trinity, not only by three witnesses on earth, but also in heaven, and in God Himself in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, ONE God.

"Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1 John 5:5).

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