You're viewing the church as a human institution, in which case it is hopelessly divided and pitted against itself in thousands of factions. If the church is the ekklesia--all the individuals called out by God who are in Christ--it is not a human institution that can be organized and shaped into a hierarchy. I realize this will take some time to wrap your mind around this for anyone used to hierarchy, clergy, process, etc. But Christianity is not about those things--that is Churchianity, not Christianity. Being Christlike--now that is where the rubber meets the road. As for whether there is anything wrong with the Nicene or other creeds, that's beside the point. I dislike the use of creeds on principle, not their content. No, there is nothing that screams heresy in the Nicene, but my point is that one does not need to read and understand the Nicene (or the historical context it was written in) to be saved. God bless,
Gospel UnionUltimately, an overwhelming majority of Christendom resides within Liturgically based, Hierarchal Churches.
Major Traditional Branches of Christianity
(mid-1995; source: Encyclopedia Britannica)
Branch Number of Adherents
Catholic 968,000,000
Protestant 395,867,000
Other Christians 275,583,000
Orthodox 217,948,000
Anglicans 70,530,000
Source
Accordingly - and without even touching upon the clear Scriptural dictates we accept for both - pragmatically, this same vast majority is far more rightly concerned with healing past schismatic rifts which serve to divide us on otherwise common grounds than in arbitrarily subscribing to the individualistic and anti Liturgical, anti Hierarchal, doctrines advocated by "Gospel Union" - or by anyone else plainly well beyond the Christian mainstream we so obviously represent.
However, while a practicing Catholic, I regularly work in common cause with fundamentalist Protestants on "the Christian Right" on a host of societal - "family values" - issues, none of us compromises or abandons any personally held theological principles to do so.
In the final anlaysis, what Christian can ever aspire to be - or need be - anything more than "the thief on the right"?