Monday, March 16, 2015
A Worldwide Christian Creed by Irenaeus in 180CE
The Church, though dispersed through our the whole
world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their
disciples this faith: [She believes] in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in
the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God,
and the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the
resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the
beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] manifestation from heaven in
the glory of the Father “to gather all things in one,” and to raise up anew all
flesh of the whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and
God, and Savior, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father,
“every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth, and that every tongue should confess” to Him, and that He
should execute just judgment towards all; that He may send “spiritual
wickednesses,” and the angels who transgressed and became apostates, together
with the ungodly, and unrighteous, and wicked, and profane among men, into
everlasting fire; but may, in the exercise of His grace, confer immortality on
the righteous, and holy, and those who have kept His commandments, and have
persevered in His love, some from the beginning [of their Christian course],
and others from [the date of] their repentance, and may surround them with
everlasting glory.
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