How Can God Be Three and One? The Trinity Explained
Christians say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God. They also say there is only one God. So which is it? One, or three?
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How Can God Be Three and One? The Trinity Explained
Christians say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God. They also say there is only one God. So which is it? One, or three?
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How can God be three and one?
Christians say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God, and that there is only one God. Follow the question from the Jordan River to the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, and leave with one sentence that explains it.
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There is one God.
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are each God.
They are distinct: not one person with three names.
Every explanation has to keep all three standing. The film tests four that didn’t.
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