Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CREEDS The Creeds or Confessions of Faith were a gradual growth in the History of the Christian Church but their rudiments may be said to have existed from its first foundation—from the answer of St Peter to our Lord, when asked: “ Whom do men say that I am ? ” “ Thou art the Christ ” ; or the statement of St Paul in the Epistle to the Romans (x. 9): “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” All subsequent Confessions of Faith are, in fact, more or less expanded developments of the original baptismal formula, derived from the commission given by Christ to the Apostles in the conclusion of St Matthew’s Gospel (xxviii. 19): “ Go ye therefore and teach [make disciples of] all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” From this simple acknowledgment of the threefold Name, possibly from the stiU simpler acknowledgment of Jesus as “ the Christ ” or Messiah, have sprung aU the more elaborate “ Credenda ” of the Christian Church.