Redeemer Lutheran Church (LCMS)
and Child Care, Englewood, FL
Declarations of the faith of this church
The
Apostles' Creed
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I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker 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, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the
third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and
sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He
shall come to judge the quick 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 the life everlasting. Amen.
* catholic means "universal" and is not a reference to the Roman
Catholic Church.
The Nicene Creed
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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 the 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 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 worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets.
And I believe 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.
* catholic means "universal" and is not a reference to the Roman
Catholic Church.
Athanasian Creed
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Written against the Arians.
Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he
hold the catholic* faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole
and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And the catholic* faith is this, 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, 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 uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the
Holy Ghost uncreate. 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 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 to acknowledge every Person by
Himself to be 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
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 before or after other; none is
greater or less than another; But the whole three Persons are
coeternal together, and coequal: so that in all things, as is
aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be
worshiped. He, therefore, that will be saved must thus think of the
Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also
believe faithfully 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 conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by
taking 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; Who suffered for our
salvation; descended into hell, rose again the third day from the
dead; He ascended into heaven; He sitteth on the right hand of the
Father, God Almighty; from whence He shall come to judge the quick
and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their
bodies, and shall give an account of their own works. And they that
have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have
done evil, into everlasting fire.
This is the catholic* faith; which except a man believe faithfully
and firmly, he cannot be saved.
* catholic means "universal" and is not a reference to the Roman
Catholic Church.
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