C U L T -AND- C U L T U R E
T H E N I C E N E C R E E D
INTRODUCTION TO THE NICENE CREED - This creed was first formulated at the First Ecumenical Council, held at Nicea, located in what is now Turkey, in 325, as a response to the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ. It was revised at the Second Ecumenical Council, held at Constantinople in 381 as a response to the Macedonian or Pneumatomachian heresy, which denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit. The Western church later made a few additional changes which were not accepted in the Eastern church. The Western version is given here, but the differences between the versions are not shown. It states the doctrine of the Trinity. The sources are the Institute for Christian Leadership website with a link to a page on the Apologia website and minor references to Volume I of Philip Schaff's The Creeds of Christendom and The Reformed Confessions as Adopted by the Reformed Church in the U.S..
THE NICENE CREED
I believe in one
God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible
and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God,
begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God
of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom
all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from
heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made
man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was
buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and
ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall
come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom
shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and Giver of Life,
who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son
together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets. And I believe
one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; I acknowledge one baptism for the
remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of
the world to come.
AMEN.