The
Apostles Creed
I
believe in God the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth.
And
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
He descended into hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty.
From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I
believe in the Holy Ghost,
the Holy Catholic Church,
the Communion of Saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting. Amen.
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,
born of the Father before all ages,
God of God, Light of Light,
very God of very God,
begotten, not made,
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 became incarnate by the Holy Ghost
of the Virgin Mary, and was made man;
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
He suffered death and was buried;
and on the third day He rose again
according to the Scriptures,
and ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of the Father;
and He shall come again in glory,
to judge both the living 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.
In 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.
The
Athanasian Creed
Whoever wills to be in a
state of salvation, before all things it is necessary that he hold the
Catholic Faith, which except everyone shall have kept whole and
undefiled without doubt he will perish eternally.
Now
the Catholic Faith is that 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, another of the
Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit, is One, the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
Such
as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit; the
Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated; the
Father infinite, the Son infinite, and the Holy Spirit infinite; the
Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet
not three eternals but one eternal, as also not three infinites, nor
three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one infinite. So, likewise, the
Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty; and
yet not three almighties but one almighty.
So
the Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy Spirit God; and yet not
three Gods but one God. So the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the
Holy Spirit Lord; and yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we
are compelled by Christian truth to acknowledge every Person by Himself
to be both God and Lord; so are we forbidden by the catholic religion to
say, there be three Gods or three Lords.
The
Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is of the
Father alone, not made nor created but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of
the Father and the Son, not made nor created nor begotten but
proceeding. So there is one Father not three Fathers, one Son not three
Sons, and Holy Spirit not three Holy Spirits. And in this Trinity there
is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less, but the whole three
Persons are coeternal together and coequal.
So
that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Trinity in Unity and the Unity
in Trinity is to be worshipped. He therefore who wills to be in a state
of salvation, let him think thus of the Trinity.
But
it is necessary to eternal salvation that he also believe faithfully the
Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. The right faith therefore is that
we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is
God and Man.
He
is God of the substance of the Father begotten before the worlds, and He
is man of the substance of His mother born in the world; perfect God,
perfect man subsisting of a reasoning soul and human flesh; equal to the
Father as touching His Godhead, inferior to the Father as touching His
Manhood.
Who
although He be God and Man yet He is not two but one Christ; one however
not by conversion of the Godhead in the flesh, but by taking of the
Manhood in God; one altogether not by confusion of substance but by
unity of Person. For as the reasoning soul and flesh is one man, so God
and Man is one Christ.
Who
suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again from the
dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, from
whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. At whose coming
all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for
their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life
eternal, and they who indeed have done evil into eternal fire.
This
is the Catholic Faith, which except a man shall have believed faithfully
and firmly he cannot be in a state of salvation.