BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “WHAT’S
ANOTHER WAY
WE CAN DESCRIBE JESUS CHRIST?”
ANSWER:
“THE
ATHANASIAN CREED”
The
Athanasian Creed (named
after Bishop Athansius AD 300’s) was compiled by the true Christian
church
fathers in the early centuries, and clearly and once and for all
settled the
fact, that Jesus Christ is God.
Furthermore,
it is
also a description of the Godhead, that is the three persons of one God
For there
are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
1 John
5:7
For in him
dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians
2:9
For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal
power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20
THE
ATHANASIAN CREED
“We
worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity;
Neither
confounding the Persons: nor dividing the substance.
For
there is one Person of the Father: another of the Son: and another of
the Holy
Ghost.
But
the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all
one: the
Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
Such
as the Father is: such is the Son: and such is the Holy Ghost.
The Father
uncreated:
the Son uncreated: and the Holy Ghost uncreated.
The
Father incomprehensible: the Son incomprehensible:
and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible.
The
Father eternal: the Son eternal: and
the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three
eternals: but one eternal.
As
also there are not three uncreated: nor three incomprehensibles, but
one
uncreated and one incomprehensible.
So
likewise the Father is Almighty: the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghost
Almighty.
And yet they are not three Almighties:
but one Almighty.
So
the Father is God: the Son is God: and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet
they are not three Gods: but one God.
So
likewise the Father is Lord: the Son Lord: and the Holy Ghost Lord. And
yet not
three Lords: but one Lord.
For
like as we are compelled by the Christian verity (truth): to
acknowledge every
Person by himself to be God and Lord: So we are forbidden to say, There
are
three Gods, or three Lords.
The
Father is made of none: neither created,
nor begotten.
The
Son is of the Father alone: not made, not created: but begotten.
The
Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son: neither made, nor created,
nor
begotten: but proceeding.
So
there is one Father, not three Fathers: one Son, not three Sons: one
Holy Ghost,
not three Holy Ghosts.
And
in this Trinity none is afore, or after another: none is greater, or
less than
the another.
But
the whole three Persons are coeternal
and coequal. So that in all things
as aforesaid: the unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be
worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the
Trinity.
Furthermore
it is necessary to everlasting salvation: that he also believe rightly
the incarnation
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For
the right Faith is, that we believe and confess: that our Lord Jesus
Christ,
the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Substance of the Father;
begotten
before the worlds: and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the
world.
Perfect
God: and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.
Equal
to the Father, as touching his Godhead: and inferior to the Father as
touching
his Manhood.
Who
although he be God and Man; yet he is not two, but one Christ.
One;
not by the conversion of the Godhead into flesh: but by taking of the
Manhood
into God.
One
altogether; not by confusion of Substance: but by unity of person.
For
as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man: so God and Man is one
Christ.
Harley
Hitchcock
www.
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