Following, then, the holy Fathers, we unite in teaching all men to confess the one and only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. This selfsame one is perfect [teleion] both in deity but also in human-ness; this selfsame one is also actually God and actually man, with a rational soul and a body. He is of the same reality as God [homoousion to patri] as far ( Read more... )

So, I'm sure you're all so very heartbroken about this, but I'm sorry that I haven't been keeping up with the creeds while on vacation. Vacations and me doing routine things have never gone too well together. We'll be back on schedule shortly ( Read more... )

You thought I'd forgotten, didn't you? No such luck! ...it's just hard to maintain a routine and schedule when you're on vacation...

We believe in one God, the Father All Governing [pantokratora], creator [poieten] of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible ( Read more... )

We believe in one God, the Father All Governing [pantokratora], creator [poieten] of all things visible and invisible ( Read more... )

We believe in one God, the Father All Governing [pantokratora], Creator [poieten] of everything visible and invisible ( Read more... )

Do you believe in God the Father All Governing [pantokratora ( Read more... )

We however as always, the more so now as better equipped by the Paraclete, that leader into all truth, believe (as these do) in one only God, yet subject to this dispensation (which is our word for "economy") that the one only God has also a Son, his Word who has proceeded from himself, by whom all things were made and without whom nothing has been ( Read more... )

The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: [She believes] in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our ( Read more... )

Hippolytus has preserved this confession from around 180 AD:

We also know in truth one God, we know Christ, we know the Son, suffering as he suffered, dying as he died, and risen on the third day, and abiding at the right hand of the Father, and coming to judge the living and the dead. And in saying this we say what has been handed down to us.

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This is the confession of faith attributed to Justin Martyr at his martyrdom:

We worship the God of the Christians, whom we consider One from the beginning, the creator and maker of all creation, visible and invisible ( Read more... )