--- title: What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Christians believe in one God who made everything out of love and keeps it going, like a singer who keeps --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / What Christians believe: God, Jesus an… # What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit Lesson 21 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/0/) — Christians believe in one God who made everything out of love and keeps it going, like a singer who keeps the song alive by singing it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/1/) — They believe this one God is known in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit; this is called the Trinity, and Christians admit it is a mystery too big to explain fully. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/2/) — Jesus taught his friends to call God «Father», even «Abba», a warm family word, so prayer is like talking to a perfect parent. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/4/) — The Holy Spirit is God with people here and now, giving comfort, courage and guidance; the Bible and the short creeds said in church gather these beliefs together. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/5/) — For a child today this means that God is not far away or angry by default: the Christian picture is of a God who is love and who wants a friendship with every person. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/6/) — Christians believe there is one God who made everything and keeps it in being. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/7/) — The First Letter of John in the Bible says «God is love» (1 John 4:8). - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/8/) — The Trinity means one God in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/9/) — Pictures like a shamrock (a little clover with three leaves on one stem), or water as ice, liquid and steam, help explain the Trinity, but every picture falls short. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/11/) — Christians believe Jesus is both fully God and fully human. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/14/) — Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah; Muslims honour him as a great prophet but not as God's Son. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/15/) — Christians believe the Holy Spirit is God present with and in believers; wind, fire and a dove are pictures of the Spirit. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/16/) — Most Protestant Bibles have 66 books; Catholic and Orthodox Bibles have a few more, because they keep some extra older Jewish books that Protestants left out. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/17/) — How literally to read each part of the Bible is disputed among Christians. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/18/) — The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are short statements of belief said together in church. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/19/) — A few groups that call themselves Christian do not accept the Trinity. - ← previous: [Paul, his letters and the way of love](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/20-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love/) - next →: [What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)