The Nicene Creed at 1700 Years
Seventeen centuries ago, churchmen gathered at Nicaea to answer a plain question with eternal weight: who is Jesus Christ? This series walks through the creed they left us — line by line, and why it still guards the church today.
We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, begotten from the Father before all ages, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made; of the same essence as the Father.
The series
- 01May 27, 2025
Monotheism and the Creed
The Nicene Creed and the Only True God In theological terms, monotheism is the belief in one God. This doctrine is affirmed by Scripture, which declares that there is one and only one living…
- 02February 22, 2025
Creeds and the Bible
Before studying the Nicene Creed, its history, and its theology, we should propose some basic questions to lay some groundwork concerning the importance of creeds. Given the current state of…
- 03January 13, 2025
Happy Birthday! An Introduction.
The Nicene Creed as we now have it was the product of several meetings that helped Christians and churches guard against the spread of false teaching. The first of those false teachings came…