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I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God of God; Light of Light; true God of true God; begotten not made; consubstantial with the Father, by whom all things were made.
Translation: "I believe in one God, the Father the Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth." The Nicene Creed, [a] also called the Creed of Constantinople, [1] is the defining statement of belief of Nicene Christianity [2] [3] and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it. The original Nicene Creed was first adopted at the First Council of ...
The Creed of the People of God is based upon the Nicene Creed. Themes include the divinity of Christ , Catholic Mariology , Catholic ecclesiology , original sin , the Bible , the sacrifice of the Mass , and the doctrine of transubstantiation .
The earliest known creed in Christianity, "Jesus is Lord", originated in the writings of Paul the Apostle. [2] One of the most significant and widely used Christian creeds is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea [3] to affirm the deity of Christ and revised at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381 to affirm the trinity as a whole. [4]
In Baptist, Pentecostal and nondenominational Christianity, which adheres to the doctrine of the believers' Church, the profession of faith consists in witnessing to one's personal conversion and to one's faith in Jesus, before the believer's baptism. [13] [14] This rite is thus reserved for adolescents and adults. [15]
The song "Creed" on Petra's 1990 album Beyond Belief is loosely based on the Apostles' Creed. [63] GIA Publications published a hymn text in 1991 directly based on the Apostles' Creed, called "I Believe in God Almighty". It has been sung to hymn tunes from Wales, the Netherlands, and Ireland.
The Creed of Cyprian of Carthage (250) The Deir Balyzeh Papyrus (200–350) The Arian Creeds and Creeds of Euzoius (320/327) The Creed of Alexander of Alexandria (321–324) The First Synod of Antioch (325) The Second Dedication of Antioch (341) The Baptismal Creed of Jerusalem (350) The Apostolic Constitutions (350–380)
As such the Holy Spirit is personal, and as part of the Godhead, he is fully God, co-equal and co-eternal with God the Father and Son of God. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] [ 89 ] He is different from the Father and the Son in that he proceeds from the Father (or from the Father and the Son ) as described in the Nicene Creed . [ 88 ]