Does Matthew 28:18-20 speak about the Trinity as a fact?

 

Matt 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

I do not believe that is the intent of the verses. I believe this to express the unity in purpose of God’s authority. If I say “I come in the name of the law,” I am stating I come in the authority of the law. Just as we pray and finish with, “In the Name of Jesus” We are using and expressing the authority given the believer under Jesus authority.

However, it is a fact. The word trinity us used to describe the One God in three persons. This is a mainstream foundational Christian doctrine.

1John 5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.

You will find this verse is only in later manuscripts, which makes it no less true.

John 10:30 “I and [My] Father are one.”

Phil 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, [and] coming in the likeness of men.

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Jesus is using the language of Ex 3:14. In Exodus God said I AM. Jesus uses the I am about 7 times in the Gospel of John.

In Phil 2:6, “being in the form of God” The word ‘form’ is the Greek word morphe, it is where the English word Metamorphosis comes from.