How Can God Be Three and One? The Trinity Explained
Christians believe in one God. So how can the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit each be God? In simple words: one What and three Whos, the four wrong answers, and why God was never alone.
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How Can God Be Three and One? The Trinity Explained
Christians believe in one God. So how can the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit each be God? In simple words: one What and three Whos, the four wrong answers, and why God was never alone.
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How can God be three and one?
Christians believe in one God. So how can the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit each be God? In simple words, from the Jordan River to the creed: what the Trinity means, the four wrong answers, and why God was never alone.
One What, three Whos
What is God? One divine being.
Who is God? The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Each one fully God, and never apart.
The film tests four wrong answers, then draws the right one on an 800-year-old shield.
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