Although the word trinity does not appear in the Bible, the basic doctrine may be summarized in a series of short propositions taught in God’s Word. There is one God. The Father is God. The Son is God. The Holy Spirit is God. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three persons. The Father is the Father of the Son. The Son is the Son of the Father. The Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and the Son. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one God. Though the full systematic theology of the Trinity contains more than these statements, they show us the simple and core truths of this fundamental church doctrine.

虽然“三位一体”这个词没有出现在圣经中，但基本教义可以概括为s神的话语中所教导的一系列简短命题。只有一位神。父是神，子是神。圣灵是神。父、子、灵是三个位格。父是子之父。子是父之子。那灵就是父和子的灵。圣父、圣子、圣灵是一位神。虽然三位一体的完整系统神学包含的内容不只是这些陈述，但它们向我们展示了这一基本教会教义的简单而核心的真理。

Though difficult to grasp and impossible to fully comprehend, the Trinity is central to Christian doctrine, worship, and life. Without the doctrine of the Trinity, we have no gospel. William Perkins said that “it is not sufficient to salvation” to have a vague or unbiblical view of God; to be saved, “we must hold and believe that God the Father is our Father, the Son our Redeemer, the Holy Ghost our Sanctifier and Comforter.”^[1]

尽管难以掌握且不可能完全理解，但三位一体是基督教教义、敬拜和生活的核心。没有三位一体的教义，我们就没有福音。威廉·珀金斯（William Perkins）说，对神只有模糊或不符合圣经的看法“不足以获得救赎”；要得救，“我们必须坚守并相信父是我们的父，子是我们的救赎主，圣灵是我们的成圣者和保惠师。”

^[1] Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology: Revelation and God, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019), 877.