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Creeds exist to preserve and teach the truth, to confess and defend it over against the lie, to expose error (I Timothy 1:3; 4:6; Titus 1:9; 2:1). They form the basis of a genuine unity of the church, a unity founded upon the truth of God’s Word, not upon the artificial mergers of men. All of this u
Convention Discussion Outlines A creed is a statement of faith that is officially adopted by a church or group of churches. It is an official declaration of what a church or group of churches believes to be the truth of the Word of God. When a group of churches adopts a creed, they are saying that
(Strangely such decisions are usually contrary to the creeds.) And the power of any interpretation of a creed exactly rests in the fact that it is the belief of the church not in the fact that it has been laid upon the church by some body, be it Classis or Synod. Therefore I cannot agree with the de
In having creeds, therefore, believers are only doing what the Word of God itself commands them to do - confessing their faith. For this reason the creeds are often called "confessions." So it is here first of all, in the fact that creeds are confessions, that we find a Biblical basis for having the
Finally and for us very important, they are not simply dead statements of the past but if they are to be real creeds they must express the living confession of the church and of each of its members. This means that what is contained in our creeds is not only the church’s confession but our own pers
Finally, there is what we may call a devotional use of the creeds. The creeds also have a place in the personal, spiritual life of the members of the church. There are many examples of this that can be given. The Heidelberg Catechism, for example, in its exposition of the Lord's Prayer certainly giv
They are called Creeds or Confessions from the viewpoint that their contents are the object of the faith of the Church. A Church should have standards or confessions, chiefly because it is the calling of the Church as well as of the individual Christian to confess the name of Christ and the truth a
It may be further pointed out that Confessions are also called Creeds or Standards. This is important because the term “Standard” denotes that which is the criteria of what is taught and confessed in a particular church or group of churches. They are called “Creeds” from the Latin “credo” which mean
2) The Reformed Creeds (Three Forms of Unity) and the minor creeds (baptism, etc.) mark the difference between what is “Reformed” and what is not. Creeds are not infallible, but they remain binding in the church that is called “Reformed.” They are binding on all members until or unless the Synod cha
They are called standards or symbols, because they are criteria of what is taught and confessed in the church or churches uniting around them; and because they declare publicly the faith of that church or those churches. They are called Creeds or Confessions from the viewpoint that their contents ar