Christ and the Trinity. But many aspects of these doctrines were developments, not explicitly found in the Bible. Indeed, there is a lot of Scripture that would indicate the Trinity and Christology (Jesus as God), but if one doesn’t attempt to put the verses together in a certain systematic way, it wouldn’t jump right out from Scripture. So for that reason the Church had to develop it—and usually in response to heretics. So, for example, the heretical Nestorians came around and claimed that Jesus