The Symbol of Faith – I Believe…
The word ‘Creed’ comes from the Latin credo, meaning ‘I believe’. Creeds have been around since the earliest days in the Church, with the simplest one based on the confession that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah), and that the Christ is the Lord, and the confession of this belief was a prerequisite for baptism. Depending on the heresies that a particular local community had to respond to, the creeds would often develop in different ways to better explain what this belief meant.
The main creed in the Orthodox Church is called ‘The Nicene Creed’, and…
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For more information, see The Symbol of Faith – I Believe… on the Anesti website, at: http://www.anesti.info/information-on-the-orthodox-church/the-symbol-of-faith-i-believe
