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We
believe in One God [Deut
6:4, Mk
12:29, 1
Cor 8:6],
the Father
Almighty [Rev
16:7, Eph
4:6, Mt
6:9],
maker of
heaven and earth, of things visible and invisible [Gen
1:1].
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ [Lk 2:11, 1
Cor 8:6, Jam
1:1],
the Son of
God [Mt
3:17, 17:5],
begotten of
God the Father [Psalm 2:7],
only begotten
[Jn 1:18],
that is of
the substance of the Father [Jn 10:30, Heb 1:3].
God from God [Jn
11:42, 10:30],
light from
light [Jn 8:12],
true God from
true God [Jn 17:3, 10:30],
begotten and
not made [Ps
2:7],
of the same
nature of the Father [Jn 10:30, Heb 1:3],
by whom all
things came into being in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible [
Who for us men and for our salvation
came down from heaven [Jn 6:38, Mt 1:21],
took body [Jn
1:14],
became man [Jn
10:33, 1 Cor 15:47],
was born
perfectly of the Holy Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit [Lk
1:35].
By whom he took body, soul and mind
and everything that is in man,
truly
and not in semblance [Lk 24:39, 1 Jn
1:1, Jn 11:38, Lk 23:46].
He suffered [Heb 2:18, 13:12]
was crucified
[Mk 15:25]
was buried [Mk 15:46, 1 Cor 15:3-4]
rose again on
the third day [Mt 20:19, 28:6],
ascended into
heaven with the same body [Lk 24:51, Mk 16:19],
sat at the
right hand of the Father [Mk 16:19, Acts 7:55, Eph 1:20].
He is to come with the same body [Acts 1:11]
and with the
glory of the Father [Mt 16:27]
to judge the
living and the dead [1 Pt 4:5, Mt 16:27];
of His
Kingdom there is no end [Lk 1:33, Jn
18:36].
We believe also in the Holy Spirit [Mt 28:20, Jn 14:15-17,
Heb 3:7, Heb 10:15, 1 Tim 4:1],
the uncreate and the perfect [Jn 15:26];
who spoke
through the Law and through the prophets and through the Gospels [Heb 1:1-2, Neh 9:30];
who came down
upon the
preached
through the apostles [Acts 2:4]
and dwelled
in the saints [1 Cor 3:16, Acts 4:31].
We believe also in only one catholic and apostolic Church [Mt 16:18, 1 Cor 3:11, Eph 1:22-23, 2:20, 5:23-27, Rom 12:5, Mt 28:19];
in one
baptism with repentance [Acts 2:38]
for the
remission and forgiveness of sins [1 Jn 4:10, Mt
26:27-28];
in the
resurrection of the dead [Jn 5:28-29],
in the
everlasting judgment of souls and bodies [1 Cor 15:51-54, 1 Thes 4:13-18];
in the
and in the life eternal [1 Jn
5:20]