St. Patrick’s Creed

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Because there is no other God
nor ever was nor will be in future days,
other than God who is unbegotten Father,
without beginning,
yet from whom is all beginning
and who holds all things in being
as we have come to learn;
and his Son Jesus Christ
Whom together with his Father
we bear witness, has most surely always existed
even before time began,
Begotten spiritually and present with the Father
in a manner beyond human words;
before all time began.
And through him have all things, seen and unseen,
been made,
then he himself was made man,
and once death had been overcome, he was received
into the heavens with his Father.
“And he has given him full power over every name
in the heavens, on earth
and in the depths beneath
so that every tongue shall confess to him
that Jesus Christ is our Lord and God.”
It is he whom we believe
and we hope he will soon come again,
to be “judge of the living and dead
who will render each man according to his deeds.”
And “he has poured out abundantly his Holy Spirit upon us,”
given as a pledge of our immortality.
Which the Holy Spirit makes us both believers,
obedient “children of God and equal heirs with Christ”:
whom we confess and adore,
one God in the most holy named Trinity.

(Source, HERE. Thanks to my friend RomGabe for this link.)

Author: DanutM

Anglican theologian. Former Director for Faith and Development Middle East and Eastern Europe Region of World Vision International

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