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.

雖然“三位一體”這個詞沒有出現在聖經中，但基本教義可以概括為s神的話語中所教導的一系列簡短命題。只有一位神。父是神，子是神。聖靈是神。父、子、靈是三個位格。父是子之父。子是父之子。那靈就是父和子的靈。聖父、聖子、聖靈是一位神。雖然三位一體的完整系統神學包含的內容不只是這些陳述，但它們向我們展示了這一基本教會教義的簡單而核心的真理。

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]

盡管難以掌握且不可能完全理解，但三位一體是基督教教義、敬拜和生活的核心。沒有三位一體的教義，我們就沒有福音。威廉·珀金斯（William Perkins）說，對神只有模糊或不符合聖經的看法“不足以獲得救贖”；要得救，“我們必須堅守並相信父是我們的父，子是我們的救贖主，聖靈是我們的成聖者和保惠師。”

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