day no. 16.268: salvation is Trinitarian

"Each of the three Persons in the blessed Trinity is concerned with our salvation: with the Father it is predestination; with the Son propitiation; with the Spirit regeneration. The Father chose us; the Son died for us; the Spirit quickens us. The Father was concerned about us; the Son shed His blood for us, the Spirit performs His work within us. What the One did was eternal, what the Other did was external, what the Spirit does is internal.” — Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God

Salvation is Trinitarian.

While you do not have to know that in order to be saved by it, you cannot be shown that in the Scriptures, hear it, reject it, and still be saved by it.

You don’t have to understand the Trinity in order to be saved. If that were the case, who could be saved? But you cannot reject the Trinity without rejecting salvation. There’s a difference between what you must know and believe on the front end and what you must not reject as you go along.

One could believe the Gospel and be regenerated without ever having heard of the Holy Spirit per se, but could not believe the Gospel and reject the Spirit after hearing about it. Discovering the Trinity is not to be equated with being saved, but no one who is saved discovers the Trinity and then denigrates it.