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''Now, of course, we people today, '''we believe that there’s three, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost is the three persons of the one true God.''' It’s three offices, not three Gods. But that same… Listen now, we think that was ridiculous in the Catholic church, but we brought it right down here at Pentecost and tore yourselves to pieces with it—set up another organization, started something else.<ref>William Branham, 57-0309B - I Will Restore, para. 31-32</ref>
''Now, of course, we people today, '''we believe that there’s three, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost is the three persons of the one true God.''' It’s three offices, not three Gods. But that same… Listen now, we think that was ridiculous in the Catholic church, but we brought it right down here at Pentecost and tore yourselves to pieces with it—set up another organization, started something else.<ref>William Branham, 57-0309B - I Will Restore, para. 31-32</ref>


''Now, at the '''Nicene Council, they come to two great decisions'''. On the… Oh, many of them in that day of the early church fathers, they had two extreme views. '''One of them was a triune God, a trinitarian. And the other one was a—a one God. And they both come into existence and went out on two straight limbs''', out like that. The triunity became a place of a three-god person. The oneness became a unitarian, just as far wrong as the other one was. So they both went on limbs, but right in Here reveals the Truth.
''And '''in the Nicene Council''', to do this, in order to do this, '''they had to take a trinity''', because in the Roman world they had many gods. They prayed to their dead ancestors.<ref>William Branham, 60-1204M - The Revelation Of Jesus Christ, para. 171, 175</ref>
''And no one, no Protestant, no early church was ever believed in three gods. '''It was a great issue at the Nicene Council''', and both of them went on limbs; out this way, as to say. The trinitarian, the triune people that believed in the trinity, which finally formed in '''the Catholic church, they went to complete trinity''', making God “three” people. And '''there was one that believed that God was “one,” and they went on the other side to be a unitarian.''' Both of them are wrong. God can’t…<ref>William Branham, 60-1205 - The Ephesian Church Age, para. 32</ref>


''A trinity of frogs! A frog is an animal that always looks backward. He never looks where he’s going; he looks where he’s come from. See? Don’t you see? Where was trinitarianism born at? Remember, “three unclean spirits,” individual spirits. Are you getting it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]  
''A trinity of frogs! A frog is an animal that always looks backward. He never looks where he’s going; he looks where he’s come from. See? Don’t you see? Where was trinitarianism born at? Remember, “three unclean spirits,” individual spirits. Are you getting it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]