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The true belief of the
First Christians
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‫اوليه‬ ‫مسيحيان‬ ‫راستين‬ ‫عقايد‬
The Apostles' Creed, certainly an early Creed though its exact date is unknown,
expresses the relationship between Christ and God thus:
". . . God the Father Almighty . . . Jesus Christ His only Son . . . conceived by the Holy
Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary . . ." After his resurrection Christ "ascended into heaven,
and sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from whence he shall come to
judge the quick and the dead . . ."
This is in complete agreement with what the Bible says. But later creeds show many
additions and a different view.
The Nicene Creed, 325 A.D., declares that Jesus Christ is
"the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds . . . God of God,
Very God of Very God, being of one substance with the Father . . . The Holy Ghost with
the Father and Son together is worshipped and glorified . . ."
The Athanasian Creed, of unknown date but certainly in existence soon after 500 A.D.,
is even more emphatic:
"We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity . . . there is one Person of the
Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the
Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty
coeternal. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy Ghost uncreate . . ." All
are declared to be eternal, "yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal". The Creed
concludes with the ominous statement: "He that will be saved must think thus of the
Trinity." .