1. What are the parts of the Trinity?
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What are the parts of the Trinity?
LO: to understand the nature of God as the Trinity
Corinthians P K
Starter Task
What do you think these symbols are saying about God and the Trinity?
Luke?
love
Christians believe in only 1 God
3 main branches – orthodox, catholic and protestant
Church split in 1054
Ten Commandments say you should have no other God’s before me
God is spirit – Luke 24:39, John 4:24
God is the creator – Genesis 1
God can be described as omnipotent, benevolent and just
Luke 1:37 ‘Nothing is impossible with God’
John 3:16 God so loved the world he sent his Son Jesus
Love is patient and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4)
READY FOR MORE to analyse and evaluate what may seem to be conflicting ideas about God Grade 8-9
to explain the concepts of the Oneness of God and the Trinity Grade 6-7
PRACTISE to describe the Trinity and begin to understand the concept of the Oneness of God Grade 4-5
NOT SURE to identify what the three parts of the Trinity are Grade 2-3

2. Is THREE better than ONE?
The idea of the Trinity is that there are three ‘persons’, all of which are God.
Just as a clover leaf is made up of what seems to be three separate leaves, the one God is made up of three ‘persons’ – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Grade 8-9: analyse and evaluate what may seem to be conflicting ideas about God
Grade 6-7: explain the concepts of the Oneness of God and the Trinity
Grade 4-5: describe the Trinity and begin to understand the concept of the Oneness of God
Grade 2-3: identify what the three parts of the Trinity are

3. Trinity Key terms Copy down one of the definitions below:
The belief that there are 3 persons in the One God – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – and they are separate but one
That there are 3 persons in the One God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
The belief that God is 3 – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Trinity
Grade 8-9: analyse and evaluate what may seem to be conflicting ideas about God
Grade 6-7: explain the concepts of the Oneness of God and the Trinity
Grade 4-5: describe the Trinity and begin to understand the concept of the Oneness of God
Grade 2-3: identify what the three parts of the Trinity are

4. The Trinity
Another way to think about this is to consider ice, water and steam. These are different forms of the same thing (H2O).
The Trinity is similar: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have different forms and are experience in different ways even though they are all the same God.
The Trinity describes all three of the following at once:
There is only one God
Each person of the Trinity is fully God
The persons of the Trinity are not the same

5. God as the Trinity
In the Bible Jesus is referred to as the Son of God (Hebrews 1:3)
In Mark 1, Jesus is baptised by his cousin John. All three are present – God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit (as a dove).
In Matthew 28 Jesus tells his disciples to ‘baptise in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’.
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6. FOCUS TASK
Use your Nicene Creed from last lesson to do this continue to outline what the Creed teaches us about the Trinity .
Use p.13 to help you.
Grade 8-9: analyse and evaluate what may seem to be conflicting ideas about God
Grade 6-7: explain the concepts of the Oneness of God and the Trinity
Grade 4-5: describe the Trinity and begin to understand the concept of the Oneness of God
Grade 2-3: identify what the three parts of the Trinity are
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7. Final FIVE - Christianity
See if you can GUESS the Final FIVE Facts on Christianity today…
The Trinity is one God as 3 parts
Jesus is the Son of God
Holy Spirit is God in the world today
Mark 1 all three parts present at Jesus’ baptism
Matthew 28 Jesus says to baptise in the name of father, son and spirit
Baptise in the name of …