Q: In reference to the Holy Trinity, My question is Is The Father, the Holy Ghost, and the Son (Jesus) all the same person?  I believe they are. Would like to have more info.

A: On the one hand, the Father and the Son are one (John 10:30), but Father, Son and Holy Spirit are also clearly distinct from one another, as can be derived from the following verses derived mostly from the words of Yeshua himself, as recorded in chapters 14-17 of the Gospel of John.

The following verses show the intimate relationship between the Father and the Son:

• To see the Son is to see the Father (John 14:9)
• To hate the Son is to hate the Father (John 15:24)
• To know the Son is to know the Father (John 14:7)
• The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father (John 14:10, 11; 10:38)
• The Son was with the Father before the world began (John 17:5)
• What belongs to the Father belongs to the Son, and what belongs to the Son belongs to the Father (John 16:15, John 17:10)
• The Father loves those who love the Son.

At the same time, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are also clearly distinct from one another. If the three terms were merely different names for the same "person" in the usual sense -- that is to say, if one name could be freely substituted for the other, the following statements would make no sense:

• "The Father sent the Son" (John 17:3, 17:25) (can we read "The Father sent the Father? The Son sent the Son?)
• The Son goes to the Father (John 16:28) (The Son goes to Himself?)
• The Father sends the Holy Spirit in the name of the Son (John 14:26)
• The Son is the Way to the Father (John 14:6), (The Son is the way to Himself?)
• The following are even harder:
• Whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. (Matthew 12:32)
• "The Father is greater than I (the Son)" (John 14:28)
• "My words are not my own, but of the Father" (John 14:10)
• The Son will sit at the right hand of the Father (Matthew 26:64)
• The Father alone knows the day of Messiah’s return, the Son does not. (Matthew 24:36)
• The Holy Spirit will come when the Son has gone away. (John 16:7)
• "Not my (Son’s) will but thine (the Father’s)" (Matthew 26:39)

Although the word "trinity" never appears in Scripture, and there is no passage specifically addressing such a doctrine, the existence of such an entity is clearly inferred from passages such as these.

-- David Brown