The Trinity (or Godhead) is a concept where God exists as three distinct persons at the same time: God the Father, God the Son, and The Holy Ghost
The concept originates from the Christian scholar Tertullian, in the 3rd Century A.D. Believers in the Trinity are called Trinitarians.
The Trinity is not just a Catholic concept but is used by many Protestant Christian denominations.
Two verses from the New Testament are used to justify the existence of the Trinity; Matthew 28:19 and John 10:30
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (Matt. 28:19)
I and my Father are one. (John 10:30)
It should be noted that in John 1:1-14, the Apostle John describes Jesus as the Word of God. That is, that a part of God was made flesh (John 1:14), rather than God Himself living as a mortal.
And, some scholars propose that in the original Greek, it was written that Jesus said he and the Father were hen, meaning united as one, rather than one and the same.
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