The Creed of Nicea

I believe it is important for us to affirm the Creed of Nicea and its importance of forging the foundation for Trinitarianism in the Christian faith.

The Creed of Nicea: 325

We believe in one GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY,
Maker of all things visible and invisible;

And in one LORD JESUS CHRIST, the Son of God,
begotten of the Father, only begotten, that is, from the substance of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten and not made, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things came into being, things in heaven and things on earth, who because of us men and because of our salvation, came down and became incarnate, becoming man, suffered and rose again on the third day, ascended to the heavens, and will come to judge the living and the dead;

And in the HOLY SPIRIT.

But as for those who say, There was when He was not, and,
Before being born He was not, and that He came into existence out of nothing, or who assert that the Son of God is of different hypostasis or substance, or is created, or is subject to alternation or change – these the Catholic [universal] Church anathematizes.

From Early Christian Creeds, ed. J. N. D. Kelly and Henry Bettenson. Documents of the Christian Church (2d ed., Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 1963), 215-216.

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