triune

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Unit 9: the doctrines of God, Christ, & the Holy Spirit--now known as the triune God.

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  1. adjective Being three in one. Used especially of the Christian Trinity.
  2. noun A trinity.

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  • He sets forth our Lord Jesus Christ as the triune God—Creator, Redeemer and Savior—in loftier terms than are to be found anywhere else in his epistles. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • The surviving female of the triune, Dem Loa, took the sacrament and became an Aenean not many weeks after the Shared Moment. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
  • For example, most believers care not to explain or understand Gould's use of Scilla's coral as a triune metaphoric depiction of evolutionary theory; most believers haven't read Ingersoll or Bertrand Russell; in fact, many —  Atheist Blogs Aggregated
  • The non-triune god of the other monotheistic religions is not the God of the bible, who is essentially and eternally triune. —  Reformation Theology
  • Christ prayed in his High Priestly Prayer that His disciples would be one as the triune godhead is one. —  magic-city-news.com
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  1. tri- + Latin ūnus, one; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin tres (tri-), three, + unus, one: see three and one.
 

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