Safety and honesty
What Trinity will and will not do
A tool that teaches the Bible can do a specific kind of damage if it is careless: invent a verse, flatten a real disagreement, or step into a place where a person is needed. These are the limits we hold ourselves to, written plainly enough that you can hold us to them too.
It will not invent a verse
Language models produce fluent text, and fluent text can look exactly like Scripture while being nothing of the kind. This is the failure mode we designed against first.
Trinity quotes from a fixed text it does not write. If it cannot find a passage that says what a question assumes, it says so plainly rather than producing something that sounds biblical. A sentence that sounds like Scripture and carries no reference is ours, not God's, and you should read it that way.
It cites chapter and verse
Every quotation carries its reference: book, chapter, verse. Every claim about what a passage says points at the passage, so you can open it and disagree with us.
When Trinity is drawing on background rather than on the text (historical setting, a word's range of meaning, how a phrase was heard in the first century), it says that is what it is doing. Background is not the same as exegesis, and it should never be smuggled in wearing the same clothes.
It reads the World English Bible by default
The WEB is a modern public-domain translation, which means we can ship the actual words of the text rather than paraphrasing around a licence. Every verse quoted in the product and on this site is WEB unless it is labelled otherwise.
If you read a different translation, keep it open beside you. Trinity will talk about where translations diverge and why. A Hebrew idiom rendered three defensible ways is a useful thing to see, not a problem to hide.
Where Christians disagree, it says so
On a long list of questions, thoughtful Christians reading the same texts have reached different conclusions. Trinity's job on those questions is to describe the disagreement accurately, not to settle it.
That means naming the main positions, giving the strongest version of each rather than a caricature, and saying which traditions hold them. It does not mean pretending every view is equally well supported, and it does not mean refusing to explain what a text says.
It is not a church, a pastor, or a counsellor
Trinity is a study tool for the days between Sundays. It cannot pray with you in a hospital corridor, sit with you in a hard marriage, baptise anyone, or know your life. Those things are what a congregation and a pastor are for, and software is not a step on the way to replacing them.
If using Trinity makes you feel less need for other Christians, something has gone wrong with how it is being used. The point of understanding a text better is to bring the understanding back to people.
It is careful with hard disclosures
People bring real things to a Bible study: grief, abuse, addiction, despair, thoughts of ending their life. Trinity is not equipped to carry any of that, and it will not pretend to be.
When something in that territory comes up, Trinity stops teaching, says plainly that it is not the right kind of help, and points you toward a person: your local emergency number if you or someone else is in immediate danger, a doctor, a licensed counsellor, a pastor or a trusted friend. It will not offer a verse as a substitute for care, and it will not try to talk you through a crisis.
Your study is yours
In plain language: we store your account details and the record of what you have studied, because the review schedule cannot work without knowing what you read and when. We do not sell any of it, and we do not use your conversations to advertise to you.
You can export your study history or delete your account, and deleting the account deletes the history with it. The full legal detail will live on the privacy page; if the two ever disagree, tell us, because that is a bug in our writing.
Worked example
Five places Trinity names the disagreement instead of settling it
This is not an exhaustive list, and none of these are questions we think are unimportant. They are questions where telling you there is one obvious answer would be dishonest.
- Baptism
Christians disagree about who is baptised and how. Some baptise the infant children of believers, holding that baptism marks entry into the covenant community; others baptise only those who profess faith for themselves, by immersion. Trinity will lay out both cases from the texts each side leans on, and tell you which traditions hold which.
- The end times
Readings of Revelation and the surrounding prophetic material differ sharply: whether its imagery maps onto future events in sequence, onto the first century, or onto the whole age between Christ's comings. Trinity will name the main readings rather than presenting one as the plain sense.
- Church government
Congregational, presbyterian and episcopal structures each argue from the New Testament. Trinity treats this as a live disagreement among people reading the same letters carefully.
- Spiritual gifts
Whether the more visible gifts described in Acts and 1 Corinthians continue today is disputed. Trinity presents the continuationist and cessationist arguments and leaves the judgement with you and your church.
- Grace, choice and God's initiative
How divine sovereignty and human responsibility fit together has been argued for centuries by people who agreed on the gospel. Trinity will not flatten it into one answer.
If you need help now
Please talk to a person, not to us
If you are thinking about harming yourself or someone else, or you are in danger, contact your local emergency number or a crisis service in your country straight away. If something heavy is sitting on you and it is not an emergency, a doctor, a licensed counsellor, or a pastor who knows you is the right first call. Trinity is a study tool. It is not equipped for this, and it will tell you so rather than try.
Reporting a bad answer
Tell us when we get it wrong
Every answer in the product has a report control beside it. Using it sends us the passage, the exchange, and whatever you want to add. That is the fastest route, because it arrives with the context attached.
If you would rather write to a human, or you found the problem on this site rather than in the app, email hello@gettrinity.app with the passage and what went wrong. A misquoted verse or a disagreement presented as settled goes to the front of the queue.