The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, the third chapter and the sixteenth verse–let us read it very carefully.

         ”And without controversy great is the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God was manifested in three persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.”

You would almost think that it read that way, to hear some folk talk. This is how it actually reads:

         ”And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.”…

The Bible, in its entire sixty-six books, knows nothing at all about a mysterious three-person godhead. The great mystery of godliness is the incarnation–God manifest in the flesh.

(Gordon Magee, Is Jesus in the Godhead or Is the Godhead in Jesus? Pasadena, Texas, n.d., 3)