|
First Christian Reformed Church of South Holland |
||
| Welcome
To Visitors Home About Us Contact Us Location Church Staff Church
Life |
The Nicene Creed The Nicene Creed, also called the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, is a statement of the orthodox faith of the early Christian Church in opposition to certain heresies, especially Arianism. These heresies disturbed the church during the fourth century, and concerned the doctrine of the Trinity and of the person of Christ. Both the Greek, or Eastern, and the Latin, or Western, Church held this creed in honor, though with one important difference. The Western Church insisted on the inclusion of the phrase and the Son (known as the Filioque) in the article on the procession of the Holy Spirit, which phrase to this day is repudiated by the Eastern Church. Though in its present form this Creed does not go back to the Council of Nicea (325 A.D.), nor to the Council of Constantinople (381 A.D.), as erroneously held until recent times, it is in substance an accurate and majestic formulation of the Nicene faith. ------------------------------- I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. And
in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten from
the Father before all worlds; God from God, Light from Light, very God
of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father,
by whom all things were made. And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets. And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and to life in the world to come. Amen. |