We have already discovered that the Bible never explicitly mentions the Trinity, so how can we know that it exists? A lesson for your Sunday school curriculum can be to find Biblical passages that make references to the Trinity.

St. Gregory argues that the revelation of the Trinity was gradual throughout the entire body of Scripture, and for that reason, there is no explicit mention of its existence.  Following are two of many references to the Trinity.

2 Corinthians 13:14
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

This blessing on the apostles clearly joins Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit as being three related, though not explicitly divine, entities.  Trinitarian scholars view this blessing as an affirmation of the divinity of the Holy Spirit as well, since Jesus and God had already been named as divine beings.

Matthew 28:19
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…

This passage is often called the Great Commission, when Jesus called on his apostles to take his commandments and his message to the world and convert people to Christianity.  This mention of the three beings is also given as great support for the existence of the Trinity, because by baptizing people the apostles would be sanctifying them through the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, who would need to be divine for the baptism to be real.

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