history. There is no virtue in continuing to hold such a difficult doctrine of the Trinity if it is not actually taught in the Bible. The church, we noted earlier, drew the inference of the Trinity from two sets of evidence it accepted. On the one hand, the Bible taught that God is one. On the other, there were three persons whom the Bible seemed to identify as being divine. The reality that there is only one God is both taught and presupposed throughout Scripture. Probably the clearest
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