the life of the Christian is founded, not on something which he manufactured himself, but on something which he received. There is a chain in the transmission of the faith. The faith came from Jesus to the apostles; it came from the apostles to the church; and it comes ...
Politically, because the abuses of the church, such as corruption, worldliness, and the power to exercise the rule of absolute law over kings, noblemen, and the peasantry alike, did little to endear Church and State to one another. And sexually; well, there was this little matter of ...
The church is said to be recognizable by four marks (as in the Nicene Creed): it is one (united), holy (producing holy lives), catholic (universal, supranational), and apostolic (having continuity with the apostles). In the Orthodox Eastern Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the ...
I grew up in a denomination in which creeds were never a part of worship. Not until I joined our local United Methodist church in my late teenage years did I learn the Apostle’s Creed contains this line: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” The Nicene...
dead that we might be, too — all people who affirm the core and fundamental truths of the Christian faith, as stated in the three ecumenical creeds of the Church (the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed)— can rightfully call themselves Christians and can be ...
When we confess in the Nicene Creed that the Church is “Catholic,” what does that really mean? The common answers one usually hears on this point are either “communion with the Pope” or “possesses apostolic succession.” The first of these is an irrelevant, Ultramontane fable. The seco...
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as stated in thethree ecumenical creeds of the Church(theApostles’ Creed, theNicene Creed, and theAthanasian Creed) — can rightfully call themselves Christians and can be saved. All we Christians of particular doctrines have many disagreements about finer points of theology, even about who is ...
Benedict XVI totally blasphemes Church Tradition. –Page 282 Benedict XVI teaches that the term “original sin” is false, even though the Council of Trent used it four times. –Page 283 Benedict XVI criticizes the Apostles’ Creed. –Page 283 BENEDICT XVI ADMITTING THAT VATICAN II HAS CHANGED...