We will discuss one of the reasons that confirms the doctrine of the Trinity. Throughout the entire Bible, we see that God is exalted and deserves all the glory. Everything points to Him being glorified through every act He performs because He is truly worthy. Yet another person who also receives great glory is the Messiah, who is mentioned in the Old Testament and revealed as the Son of God in the New Testament.
We will look at a passage from the book of Isaiah that points us in this same direction:
“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And I will not give My glory to another. (Isaiah 48:11)
This passage clearly states that God will not give His glory to another. I want to be careful not to misinterpret it or claim that it expresses something it does not. However, it leads me to consider this question: If God will not give His glory to another, why is the name of Jesus so highly exalted? This leads me to think that exalting Jesus does not mean exalting someone other than God; rather, it means exalting God Himself. God receives glory by exalting Jesus because, in exalting Him, God does not exalt someone other than Himself. This is because Jesus is part of the Trinity and is divine. Jesus did everything to glorify the Father, and the Father manifested His glory through Him. But exalting Him and placing Him in such a high position does not contradict biblical doctrine because, in this way, it is not someone besides God who is being glorified.
Someone might say that the exaltation of Jesus belongs only to the New Testament and that the Trinity is a New Testament doctrine. However, in the Old Testament, we also find many confirmations of the triune nature of God and see how the Messiah is exalted.
Psalm 2:6–12; Psalm 45:6–7; Psalm 110:1; Isaiah 11:1–10; Isaiah 42:1–8; Isaiah 52:13–53:12; and Daniel 7:13–14.
These are just some of the Old Testament passages that mention and exalt the Messiah. Some of them also speak of God’s Spirit. Although the doctrine of the Trinity is not explicitly stated in the Old Testament, we see that the spiritual meaning behind these Scriptures points to it. These passages also confirm how highly exalted the Messiah is.
Often, people’s counterargument is that God is one and that the doctrine of the Trinity contradicts this, but this is because they struggle to understand it. The Trinity actually exalts the one God because all three persons of the Trinity are God. They are not three different gods; they are one God.
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