As a response to false teaching in the early church, n 325 AD, Christian leaders met at Nicea to discuss the growing heresy. The heretical teaching denied the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit. What resulted was the Nicene Creed. It lays out beautifully the foundation of an orthodox and Biblical foundation for Christian believers today.
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, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God
of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being
of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation, came
down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin
Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius
Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again,
according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the
right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge
the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and
Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the
Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by
the prophets.
And I believe in 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 the life of the world
to come. Amen.
http://carm.org/nicene-creed
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