Category: Creeds

[Click here for a YouTube video introduction to the Creeds and the Rule of Faith] A creed is an authoritative summary of beliefs. The earliest Christian creeds were written in Greek and consisted of short sections, each beginning with “I believe,” which is a translation of the Greek word pistévo (πιστεύω). This word is related Read more

[Click here for a YouTube video introduction to the Creeds and the Rule of Faith] The Rule of Faith is thought to have developed soon after Pentecost when new churches were being formed and the core of Christian beliefs needed to be consistently communicated to potential converts. The Rule of Faith is really more of Read more

Original Nicene Creed [Click here for a YouTube video on the Original Nicene Creed] We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten from the Father, only-begotten, that is, from the same substance [homoousios] of the Father, God Read more

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from Read more

Whoever desires to be saved should above all hold to the catholic faith. Anyone who does not keep it whole and unbroken will doubtless perish eternally. Now this is the catholic faith:     That we worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity,     neither blending their persons     nor dividing their essence. Read more

Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us One and the same Son, the Self-same Perfect in Godhead, the Self-same Perfect in Manhood; truly God and truly Man; the Self-same of a rational soul and body; co-essential with the Father according to the Godhead, the Self-same Read more