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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)Sorry to get all literalist on you, but there's no mention of the doctrine of the Trinity in the Bible. There's no mention of "the Trinity" at all. The final sentence of Matthew's gospel says to baptize "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit", and that's as close as you'll get. Hardly a 'doctrine', and many scholars think its position at the end may show it was tacked on to the book after its first version (since talk of the Trinity in Christian writing took about a century to appear after the gospels are generally dated to).
Why LeMaitre claimed the doctrine is in the Bible, I don't know. He wanted to give it a bit of spurious authority, I suppose. If he thinks it's "necessary for salvation", that's a problem for the first couple of hundred years of Christians.