Question

Change direct to indirect speech " the priest said ,"GOD is one "

Answer 1

The priest said that God is one.

Answer 2

The priest said that God is one.

In indirect speech, the words of the speaker are changed.

Indirect speech is used to say something about the past therefore the tense of the words spoken changes.

The reason for change in the actual words because the words have been spoken in the past, hence talking about it in the present will require to change the tense of the actual words.

Accordingly the pronouns are also changed.