All creedal Protestant churches accept the Apostles’ Creed and use it in worship, but some (e.g., the United Methodist Church) delete the line “He descended to the dead.” The accepted Latin version reads as follows: Britannica Quiz Christianity Quiz Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem; ...
During this gradual clarification of the essentials of Christian orthodoxy there was also scope for free discussion and speculation within the limits of the rule of faith and the baptismal creeds, a freedom of which the adventurous mind of Origen took full advantage. Heresy meant denial of the ...