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However, when the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the United States in 1784, John Wesley sent the new American Church a Sunday Service which included the phrase "he descended into hell" in the text of the Apostles' Creed. [59] It is clear that Wesley intended American Methodists to use the phrase in the recitation of the Creed.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "By the expression 'He descended into Hell', the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil 'who has the power of death' (Hebrews 2:14). In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead.
In English usage the word "Hades" first appears around 1600, as a transliteration of the Greek word "αΎ…δης" in the line in the Apostles' Creed, "He descended into hell", the place of waiting (the place of "the spirits in prison" 1 Peter 3:19) into which Jesus is there affirmed to have gone after the Crucifixion.
This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into Hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead." It adds: "But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there."
The Nicene Creed is a modified version of the Apostles' Creed; according to the New Church, a trinity of persons is a trinity of gods. [121] [122] The creed also introduces the concept of a son "begotten from eternity", which the New Church considers erroneous: [123] "the Human, by which God sent Himself into the world, is the Son of God." [124]
This is what prompted the addition of "And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is equally worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets", into the Nicene Creed at the second ecumenical council. Melchisedechians
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the meaning of Holy Saturday, the day in many traditions that comes before Easter Sunday.
This proposed prayer book removed the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, [122] omitted the "He descended into hell" from the Apostles' Creed, and reduced praise to the Trinity. [123]