I take it you don’t like creeds?
Or perhaps you never have controversies. That must be it.
I don’t care about the creeds.
I care about what Scripture says.
I can read that just fine. I’m not an illiterate peasant who needs a creed to teach me the basics of what a church claims to believe.
I take it you don’t like creeds?
Or perhaps you never have controversies. That must be it.
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A creed is nothing more than a statement of what we believe.
If I remember my history correctly, near the end of the time of the Apostles, the church leaders at the time came together and started to work on statements of faith in order to combat the growing false teaching that was spreading in some areas.
They drew what they knew from the teaching they had received and the letters from the Apostles and put their beliefs into statements that would eventually become what we know as the Apostles’ Creed (and eventually Nicene and Athanasian creeds).
When determining what writings were canonical and which weren’t, if I remember correctly, it had to be from an Apostle and it had to be in agreement with the teaching that the creeds that they passed down taught them.
So that’s why we Lutherans at least confess these historical creeds, because we believe that they are an accurate summary of the message of Scripture.
(With the understanding that ‘catholic’ means ‘universal’ not ‘Roman Catholic.’)
...but having said that, I have no idea why creeds came up in the first place; I just saw something that pinged my interest and I felt the urge to share it.