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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

The Deception of Saying
"A Three-in-One God"

One of the worst deceptions on the subject of the Trinity, and per-
haps the very worst, is the way that some Christians claim that the
Trinity actually refers to One God. Some Christians, uneasy at the
Trinity being compared to a pagan belief, maintain that the three com-
ponents refer to a single god. They themselves do not generally un-
derstand this very well, and they are basically describing a belief in
three gods.
Some Trinitarians claim that the three elements unite in a single
body, that the three elements are therefore God. Some say that the Fa-
ther is the greatest and that the others come from Him. Others speak
of a division of labor between the three gods, while still others say that
the Son came from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Son. There
are many other such ideas regarding the Trinity. However, they all

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